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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]Discover More
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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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