3 definitions found for Let bygones be bygones

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

Bygone By"gone`, n. Something gone by or past; a past event. ``Let old bygones be'' --Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

let bygones be bygones Let the past be forgotten.