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Verb: let bygones be bygones
Usage: informal
  1. End hostilities; forgive past offences
    "After years of feuding, the families decided to let bygones be bygones";
    - make peace, bury the hatchet [informal]

Derived forms: let bygones be bygones, letting bygones be bygones, lets bygones be bygones

Type of: conciliate [archaic], make up, patch up, reconcile, settle

Encyclopedia: Let bygones be bygones