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• Don’t cry over split milk.
When something bad happens and nothing can be done to help it people say, ‘Don’t cry over split milk’.
• Don’t wash your dirty laundry in public.
People, especially couples, who argue in front of others or involve others in their personal problems and
crises, are said to be washing their to be washing their dirty laundry in public; making public things that
are best left private
• Donkey work.
Donkey work is any hard, boring work or task. Don’t throw bricks when you live in a glass house- Don’t
call others out on actions that you, yourself do. Don’t be a hypocrite.
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