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How can you use “spilt” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Hard to say what that means, except stinging eyes, and besides, using half of each of two clichés is simply spilt milk off a duck's back on troubled waters: isn't it “spit and polish” and “piss and vinegar?”
Cages were changed daily and a sieve was used to measure spilt food.
The eight English proverbs cited above thus have respective equivalents as follows: Plus valet manibus passer quam sub dubio grus It is better to have a sparrow in the hand than a crane in doubt; Sero quam nunquam melius Better late than never, literally Late than never better; Sic fuit, est et erit: similis similem sibi quaerit Thus it was, is and will be; like seeks like for itself: notice the rhyme; Currens per prata non est lepus esca parata A hare running through the meadows is not a ready meal: a nice variation on the bear and his skin; Donati non sunt ora inspicienda caballi Gift horses do not need their mouths looking into: Scopae recentiores semper meliores New brooms are always best; Factum infectum fieri nequit A deed not done cannot happen: a negative equivalent to the English positive What is done cannot be undone as an alternative to the spilt milk; Roma non fuit una die condita (but of course, of course).
But there is a hazard coming up: It is no use crying over spilt milk (F) Ce qui est fait est fait What is done is done; (G) Was geschehen ist, ist geschehen What has happened, has happened; (R) \?\ What has been written with the pen cannot be hacked out with an axe; (S) A lo hecho, pecho To what has been done, courage [literally breast].
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