spilt milk
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It is not only lost, but in its spilling stains and spoils gown or carpet, and should it fall upon the bare ground, can add nothing to the producing powers of the earth; it is always just spilt milk, and not worth crying over."
- "Even looking back is foolish—that's just spilt milk. You've got just two possibilities: stop dead in your tracks, or go on."
- "One might wish that Bruckner had stood up absolutely to these well-meaning, unscrupulous, and not impressively talented students of his, but that would mean entirely remodeling his personality — and thus, surely, his music. In any event, it is a matter now of spilt milk."
- "I don't know. We'll probably never discover it. Let it go. It's just spilt milk. All water under the bridge."
Usage
Inflected Forms
spilled milk (alternative)