dead and buried

Idioms  

1. 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]

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dead and buried

Once the war was on, the isolationist movement was largely dead and buried — and stayed that way for almost 75 years.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

“Hitchcock & Herrmann” is also a portrait of a working friendship that was fruitful and fond while it lasted and dead and buried when it was over.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Presidential spokesman George Charamba expressed his disappointment about the clerics' pronouncement, telling the state-run Herald newspaper the matter was now "dead and buried".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

This only resurrected the noisome history of Epstein and the Media Lab, which MIT surely hoped would be dead and buried after it issued an independent report on the matter in January 2020.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

I think of my own father, dead and buried.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak