[let bygones
be bygones] {v. phr.} To let the past be forgotten.
After a long, angry
quarrel the two boys agreed to let bygones bebygones and made friends again.
We should let bygones be bygonesand try to get along with each other.
Syn.:
FORGIVE AND FORGET.Compare: BURY THE HATCHET, LIVE AND LET
LIVE.
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