a goner

1. Something or someone that is dead, doomed, ruined, or past recovery, as in If this new drug doesn't work, he's a goner; or Without a working transmission, my car's a goner. Synonyms of this idiom, such as, are no longer heard as much. [Slang; mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

Then, just before 11am, as foreign office minister Stephen Doughty stood up in the Commons to answer an urgent question on Mandelson, my emails pinged - and Lord Mandelson was a goner.

From BBC

Any doubt that Crowley was a goner was erased Wednesday, when Bass — who’s generally fairly reserved and nonconfrontational — said through a spokesperson that Crowley hadn’t warned her about the fire risk leading up to Jan. 7.

From Los Angeles Times

Teacher-turned-citizen detective Diarra Brickland may be a goner for a guy who ghosts her after a one-night stand.

From Salon

Now, he’s a goner, delivering Sir Keir Starmer a headache rather than a handshake.

From BBC

When a tree has 25 or more exit holes, it’s probably a goner, Durbin said.

From Los Angeles Times