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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.

Example Sentences

The only Black actor before Poitier to win a competitive Oscar was Hattie McDaniel, the 1939 best supporting actress for "Gone With the Wind."

From Fox News • Jan. 7, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2020

The striking brunette won best actress Oscars for "The Heiress" and "To Each His Own" in the late 1940s, and was Oscar-nominated for "Gone With the Wind," "The Snake Pit" and "Hold Back the Dawn."

From Salon • Jul. 26, 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

“It reminds me of Tara in Gone With the Wind except for its garden. Maybe it’s hard to get help around here.”

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy