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bygones
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"things that are past," especially offenses, 1560s, from plural of noun use of bygone (q.v.).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bygones is an Anglia Television documentary series exploring East Anglian history and traditional rural crafts first aired in 1967. The series, and in particular the regular Bygones Specials featured many interviews with people who used to do traditional ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB let ▪ It raps a defector over the knuckles instantly but, after that, lets bygones be bygones. ▪ Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end. ▪ We will let bygones be bygones. ...
Usage examples of bygones.
The poor dear old dowager was exceedingly busy and full of groans, prescribing Naples, prescribing a course of extra prayers, prescribing a general course of letting bygones be bygones to which, however, Trevelyan would by no means assent without some assurance, which he might regard as a guarantee prescribing retirement to a small town in the west of France, if Naples would not suffice.
You have only to bid her come back to you, and let bygones be bygones, and all would be right.
Mischa could have been easier on Marie—but she'd lied to him the minute she'd said bygones could be bygones with that ship.
We want their Lordships at the Admiralty to promise us to try him for his crimes and give us new officers and let bygones be bygones.
We all came out on the same street, is what I mean to say, and I think we ought to let bygones be bygones.