WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water under the bridge mean? 

• WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE (noun)
  The noun WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE has 1 sense:

1. past events to be put aside

  Familiarity information: WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Past events to be put aside

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

bygone; water under the bridge

Context example:

let bygones be bygones

Hypernyms ("water under the bridge" is a kind of...):

past; past times; yesteryear (the time that has elapsed)