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  What it means

  Literally “to cry over spilled milk.” Means to worry about something that has already happened and cannot be changed.

  Vocabulary

  • płakać — to cry
  • rozlane — spilled

  Grammar note

  'Nad' + instrumental case ('rozlanym mlekiem').

  Cultural context

  Direct equivalent to the English idiom.

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