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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a goner

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024

And they have concluded the number, but not the policy itself, is an albatross around their neck - and so it is a goner.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2024

The moment Benedick declares he’ll never get married, we know he’s a goner.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023

Then when the camera lingered on his departure from Dragonstone, until the little boy on his little dragon faded into the night, I was sure he was a goner.

From New York Times ● Oct. 23, 2022

He says to Michael,That horse is a goner.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt