beyond recall
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beyond recall
Irreversible, irretrievable, as in We can't repair this screen
it's beyond recall, or It's too late to cancel our plansthey're beyond recall. This idiom employs recall in the sense of revoking or annulling something. [Mid-1600s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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