water under the bridge

1. 1.

   past events to be put aside

   “let bygones be bygones”

   Synonymsbygone

   Broaderpast

Questions about water under the bridge

What does water under the bridge mean?

water under the bridge means "past events to be put aside".

What is another word for water under the bridge?

Close synonyms include bygone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water under the bridge a common word?

water under the bridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.