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"It's all just water over the dam." It's all done with. It has gone by. It's finished business, it's over. There's no point in worrying about it (talking about it, trying to do something about it) now. The water has flowed over the dam, and now it has gone far downstream, and it's never coming back.

Sometimes the expression is also used to mean a little more than just something that's past--that is, to refer to something as experience and not just as history. For example, suppose you have a friend who's always talking about her divorce and beating up on her ex. You might want to say, "It's all just water over the dam now, Suzy. Why don't you forget about Phil and move on?"

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