覆水难收
Traditional form:
覆水難收
Pinyin (reading):
fùshuǐnánshōu
Definitions:
- spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)
- it's no use crying over spilt milk
- what's done is done and can't be reversed
- the damage is done
- once divorced, there's no reuniting
Characters:
- 覆 - to cover; to overturn; to repeat; to reply
- 水 - water, liquid, lotion, juice
- 难 - hard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 收 - to collect, to gather, to harvest
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