that ship has sailed

that ship has sailed

English

Alternative forms

• that ship has already sailed

Etymology

Originally US.

Phrase

that ship has sailed

1. That opportunity has already passed.
   • 1995 November, “The One Where Ross Finds Out”, in Friends, season 2, episode 7, spoken by Ross (David Schwimmer):

     The point is I… I don't need this right now, OK. It, it's too late, I'm with somebody else, I'm happy. This ship has sailed.

Synonyms

• that train has left the station

Translations

that opportunity has passed

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: գնացքը գնացել է (gnacʿkʿə gnacʿel ē) Chinese: Mandarin: 时不再来 (zh), 大势已去 (zh) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: det tog er kørt Dutch: dat is een gepasseerd station Finnish: se juna meni jo German: dieser Zug ist abgefahren (de) (literally “that train has left”) Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: ez a vonat (már) elment (literally “this train has (already) gone”), ez a hajó (már) elment (literally “this ship has (aready) gone”), ez a hajó (már) elúszott (literally “this ship has (already) drifted away”) Italian: hai perso il treno Japanese: please add this translation if you can Korean: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: det toget er kjørt (literally “that train has left”), det løpet er kjørt (literally “that race is over”) Portuguese: a fila anda Russian: по́езд ушёл (pójezd ušól, literally “the train is gone”) Spanish: ese barco ya zarpó, se te fue el tren Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• close the stable door after the horse has bolted
• genie is out of the bottle
• miss the boat