a goner

Idioms  

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]

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Example Sentences

“And I’d be a goner if you hadn’t yelled at her and made her come at you,” George said.

From Literature

“That means nothing. I passed plenty of animals who ran from this fire as I came down the lakeshore. Most of them assumed anyone left behind was a goner. Heck, that’s why I came! I’m a scavenger and there are things here to scavenge.”

From Literature

"The whole family basically thought I was a goner," he wrote.

From BBC

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