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  Gone With the Wind

  noun

  a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
• gone with the wind
  gone with the wind

  Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

Gone With the Wind

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

1. a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.

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Gone With the Wind Cultural  

1. (1936) A phenomenally popular novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell. Set in Georgia in the period of the Civil War, it tells of the three marriages of the central character, Scarlett O'Hara, and of the devastation caused by the war.

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gone with the wind Idioms  

1. Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind. This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone.

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The film version of Gone With the Wind, which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.

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Gone With the Wind gone with the wind

After all, "Gone With the Wind" Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara was played by British actor Vivien Leigh in 1939.

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2023

“I’ll think about it tomorrow”: Gone With the Wind and An Inconvenient Truth.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2020

The last of the major players in Gone With the Wind, she admitted in a 2015 interview that she still watched the film from time to time in order to connect with her former co-stars.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2020

Olivia de Havilland established herself for ever in the film world’s collective memory at the age of 22, as the wise, gentle and beautiful Melanie Hamilton in the colossal epic Gone With the Wind.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2020

Not at all like the houses in Gone With the Wind or The Seven-Year Itch, movies she’d seen with her brother and cousins at the Lighthouse and the Metro.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

The group may still do OK, and some of the individual stocks may even kill it, but the slam-dunk, set-it-and-forget-it, run-circles-around-the-market era of the Mag Seven is gone with the wind.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

But to many younger people, our favorite references from old movies are going, if not gone, with the wind.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2023

On what could be the penultimate night of the 2021 season, that belief was eventually stopped in mid-air, dropped into leather, gone with the wind.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

And just like that, another corner of the Weird Old Internet is gone with the wind.

From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2021

He is gone with the wind and lightning!

From Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth