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  Gone With the Wind

  noun

  a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
• gone with the wind
  gone with the wind

  Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

Gone With the Wind

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

1. a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.

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Gone With the Wind Cultural  

1. (1936) A phenomenally popular novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell. Set in Georgia in the period of the Civil War, it tells of the three marriages of the central character, Scarlett O'Hara, and of the devastation caused by the war.

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gone with the wind Idioms  

1. Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

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The film version of Gone With the Wind, which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.

Example Sentences

Fox News: "Gone With the Wind" was a hot topic in 2020.

From Fox News • Mar. 21, 2021

“I’ll think about it tomorrow”: Gone With the Wind and An Inconvenient Truth.

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020

The striking brunette won best actress Oscars for "The Heiress" and "To Each His Own" in the late 1940s, and was Oscar-nominated for "Gone With the Wind," "The Snake Pit" and "Hold Back the Dawn."

From Salon • Jul. 26, 2020

With the support of Jack Warner's wife, Ann, de Havilland was offered the role of Melanie in David O Selznick's epic adaptation of the Margaret Mitchell novel, Gone With the Wind.

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2020

But once chosen I would be a white- gowned figure out of Gone With the Wind; I would be respectable.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston