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Idioms and Phrases

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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Example Sentences

Minghelli, the Grand Hotel, the reference in London, and the dead-and-buried nightmare have led up to and compassed everything!

And he enumerated the various dead-and-buried gentlemen from whom he appeared to think I had collated my article.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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