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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From a line of dialogue spoken by the character Lady Macbeth in Act III Scene II of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
Proverb
what's done is done
- Events that have already taken place cannot be changed and actions that have already been committed cannot be undone, so it is best not to dwell on them.
Translations
- Arabic: مَا حَدَثَ قَد حَدَثَ (mā ḥadaṯa qad ḥadaṯa), مَا فَاتَ قَدْ مَاتْ (mā fāta qad māt)
- Cebuano: dili na mabalik ang baha paingon sa bukid (literally “you cannot bring back the flood into the mountains”)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 覆水難收／覆水难收 (zh) (fùshuǐnánshōu)
- Dutch: gedane zaken nemen geen keer
- Finnish: tehty mikä tehty
- French: ce qui est fait est fait (fr), le mal est fait (fr)
- German: was passiert ist, ist passiert
- Hindi: जो होगया सों होगया (jo hogyā sõ hogyā)
- Hungarian: ez a hajó már elment
- Indonesian: nasi sudah menjadi bubur (literally “the rice has become porridge”)
- Irish: déantar an méid atá déanta
- Japanese: 覆水盆に返らず (ja) (fukusui bon ni kaerazu)
- Korean: 완료된 작업 (wallyodoen jageop)
- Malay: nasi sudah menjadi bubur
- Maori: e hoki oti te hūare ki te waha
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gjort er gjort
- Persian: کاری است که شده (kâri ast ke šode)
- Polish: co się stało, to się nie odstanie (pl), co było, to było
- Portuguese: o que está feito está feito
- Romanian: ce-a fost, a fost
- Russian: что сде́лано, то сде́лано (što sdélano, to sdélano)
- Scottish Gaelic: tha na tha air a dhèanamh air a dhèanamh
- Spanish: lo hecho, hecho está, ajo y agua (es)
- Swedish: gjort och klar
- Tagalog: nasa huli ang pagsisisi (literally “regret comes last”)
- Turkish: olan oldu (tr)
- Welsh: mae'r hyn sy'n cael ei wneud yn cael ei wneud
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