dead and gone
Completely gone or defunct. The phrase can be used to refer to one who has literally died and been buried, as well as to something unsuccessful. Their father is dead and gone, but they still complain about him daily. Oh, that idea from last week’s meeting is dead and gone now that the CEO has vetoed it.
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dead and gone
1. Lit. [of a person] long dead. Old Gert’s been dead and gone for quite a spell. When I’m dead and gone, I hope folks remember me at my best.
2. Fig. [of a thing] gone long ago. That kind of thinking is dead and gone. The horse-and-buggy days are dead and gone.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
dead and ˈburied/ˈgone
dead, especially for a long time; long past and forgotten: Long after I’m dead and gone, you’ll still be carrying on the same as you ever were. ♢ Why bring up old disagreements that have been dead and buried for years?
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dead and gone
1. mod. [of a person] long dead. Old Gert’s been dead and gone for quite a spell.
2. mod. [of a thing] gone long ago. That kind of thinking is dead and gone.
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dead and gone
Permanently absent. While this expression seems tautological as uttered by Ophelia, driven mad by terrible events (“He is dead and gone, lady, he is dead and gone; at his head a grass-green turf; at his heels a stone,” she sings to the queen in Hamlet, 4.5), it has another implication as well. “Not dead but gone before,” wrote Matthew Henry in his biblical commentary (1710)—that is, going on to a presumably glorious afterlife. Nevertheless, the sense of “gone forever” prevailed. The phrase was probably a cliché by the time Dickens wrote, “When she was dead and gone, perhaps they would be sorry” (Barnaby Rudge, 1840).
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
- dead and buried
- dead and buried/gone
- be dead and buried
- it’s all over with (someone)
- eggs is eggs
- game on
- from my cold, dead hands
- (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
- (one’s) best foot forward
- best foot forward
phrase [verb-link PHRASE] If you say that someone is dead and gone, you are emphasizing that they are dead, and thinking about what happened or will happen after their death. [emphasis] Often a genius is recognized only after he is dead and gone.
Also When was dead and gone made? Dead and Gone
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Released | January 12, 2009 |
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Definition of cross that bridge when one comes to it
: to not worry about a possible problem until it actually happens I don’t know how we’ll pay the bills if you quit your job, but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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Is there any difference between these two expressions when we are talking about a person? It seems that they have the same meaning. According to The Free Dictionary «dead and gone» means «long dead» and «dead and buried» means «dead and interred, and soon to be forgotten».
Well, a person could be long dead but not forgotten. Perhaps «dead and buried» is not used when the person is not interred anymore.
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If used of a person, both expressions mean that he or she has left the mortal coil; the difference is in how long ago. Dead and gone always means «long dead», while dead and buried could mean that the death was recent, or it could be used as a variant of dead and gone, i.e. long dead.
If used of an object or idea, dead and gone again emphasizes that it’s not just gone/obsolete/archaic/out-of-fashion, but that it has been so for a long time. With dead and buried, the emphasis is on the fact that it’s out-of-date, not on how long it’s been so: it might not yet be forgotten, but perhaps it ought to be.
If you disapprove of an attitude, then you’d want it «dead and buried». If you’ve never even heard of anyone actually believing an obsolete idea, then you could call it «dead and gone».
answered Apr 18, 2013 at 18:42
I’m going to disagree with The Free Dictionary and say «dead and gone» means «and departed», «and no longer with us» — it may be said without necessarily implying that death occurred a long time ago. One might say at a funeral:
Our dear sister is dead and gone — gone, we are confident, to a Better Place. So we may grieve for ourselves, but not for her.
«Dead and buried», in contrast, means «emphatically dead», «dead as a doornail», «dead without hope of revival». It may be said not only of persons but of matters which have «lived» only figuratively:
It’s not just a rumor. General Casales is definitely dead and buried.
With today’s Senate vote the hope for electoral reform is dead — dead and buried.
Sartorius’ evidence explodes the Kort-Vining theory, which now may be deemed dead and buried.
answered Apr 18, 2013 at 19:15
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The phrases are generally used metaphorically, though of course they can be used literally to refer to a person. In that case, I think the only difference of note between the two phrases is that not everyone is buried when they die. If someone is cremated, for example, or given some other sort of service when they die, then you cannot refer to them as «dead and buried» as they have not been buried. «Dead and gone» would apply whether or not the person was buried, however. In all other aspects the two phrases are the same.
answered Apr 18, 2013 at 17:21
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