dead and buried/gone

dead and buried

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 buried, but they still complain about him daily. Oh, that idea from last week's meeting is dead and buried now that the CEO has vetoed it.See also: and, bury, dead

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.See also: and, dead, gone

dead and buried

 1. Lit. dead and interred, and soon to be forgotten. Now that Uncle Bill is dead and buried, we can read his will. 2. Fig. gone forever. That kind of old-fashioned thinking is dead and buried.See also: and, bury, dead

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.See also: and, dead, gone

dead and buried

Also, dead and gone. Long forgotten, no longer in use, as in That argument is dead and buried, or No point in worrying about regulations that are long dead and gone. This figurative use of "having died" is usually applied to some issue. [Late 1800s] See also: and, bury, dead

dead and buried

used to emphasize that something is finally and irrevocably in the past.See also: and, bury, dead

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?See also: and, bury, dead, gone

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. See also: and, dead, gone

dead and buried

No longer in use or under consideration: All past animosities are dead and buried now.See also: and, bury, dead

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).See also: and, dead, gone