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unring a bell en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To reverse the irreversible; to perform the impossible.
“We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view.”
2024 May 7, Victoria Bekiempis, quoting Todd Blanche, “Trump hush-money trial: Stormy Daniels describes being ‘startled’ by sexual encounter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:"We can't unring any bells here. There's no point in trying to second-guess anyone right now. What's done is done."
2004, Fern Michaels, The Real Deal, page 413:
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