Regret Phrases

Idioms for regret

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• Come to grief
• Crying shame
• Don't cry over spilt milk
• Eat your heart out
• Good grief
• Hung over
• It burns me up
• Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan song)
• Marry in haste, repent at leisure
• More in sorrow than in anger
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)

• Never again
• Never look back
• No regrets
• On sufferance
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Parting is such sweet sorrow
• Rue the day
• Sadder and wiser man
• The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost poem)
• The one that got away