Sentence of idiom to cry over spilt milk?

Answer 1

I cried when my Mother swatted me for spilling my milk. Origins are most likely sprang from faery lore. It was thought, to attract faeries and their blessing or good luck to a house, laying out a "shrine" with food brought favour to the house. Whenever milk s spilled, it was considered the offering was discounted and wasting the food also added to the difficultly in feeding a family.

Answer 2

The phrase originated in America during the Great Depression because the price of milk as a commodity had fallen so low due to its overabundance relative to demand, that dairy farmers were subsidized by the state to destroy their surplus in order to bring prices back up to a profitable level. The destruction of a commodity in order to alleviate the crisis of overproduction would be, in any system other than capitalist enterprise, utterly absurd. Hence the need for Propaganda and a cute, memorable idiom like this one.

Answer 3

Yes, "Don't cry over spilled milk" is a cliche. Most well-known figures of speech are somewhat trite and shouldn't be used in formal writing. However, depending on who you're writing (or speaking) to, figures of speech like not crying over spilled milk can sometimes be very effective--but really only in casual, informal work or speech.

Answer 4

It first appeared as a proverb in James Howell's Paroimiografia (1659).

Answer 5

It has a medieval English origin that fairies enjoyed drinking spilled milk, so the loss was gone but not a terrible waste. The expression if also found in European folklore

Answer 6

(you can edit this and improve it if it's bad) Probably someone who spilled milk and started crying and his or her parents said don't cry over spilled milk.

Answer 7

such a baby over milk

Answer 8

cry over split milk

Answer 9

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