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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Let bygones be bygones

Can this phrase used to refer ugly incidents happened a day or two day before or is used generally to refer incidents happened over a long period say 1 year or so ?

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In my experience, it would generally refer to incidents which have happened over a long period. As a decision or proposal, it may well have been prompted by a very recent incident. That is, there may have been a long series of incidents leading up to this statement, and the decision/proposal at the time of the statement is to lump them all together and forget about them -- write them all off.

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  • In my experience, it would generally refer to incidents which have happened over a long period.
  • As a decision or proposal, it may well have been prompted by a very recent incident.
  • That is, there may have been a long series of incidents leading up to this statement, and the decision/proposal at the time of the statement is to lump them all together and forget about them -- write them all off.
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In my experience, it would generally refer to incidents which have happened over a long period.

As a decision or proposal, it may well have been prompted by a very recent incident.
That is, there may have been a long series of incidents leading up to this statement, and the decision/proposal at the time of the statement is to lump them all together and forget about them --
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