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• Gone With the Wind
  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 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

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

Any pretense of a connection to reality is now gone with the wind.

From Salon • Apr. 20, 2019

He is gone with the wind and lightning!

From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham