What's done is done

"What's done is done" is an idiom in English, usually meaning something along the line of: the consequence of a situation is now out of your control, that is, "there's no changing the past, so learn from it and move on."

The expression uses the word "done" in the sense of "finished" or "settled", a usage which dates back to the first half of the 15th century.

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