it's all over with

1. Something or someone is completely finished, defeated, or dead. The precise meaning of this phrase depends on the context. In This loss means that it's all over with the company, it refers to defeat, whereas in The vet can do no more; it's all over with the dog, it refers to the dog's death, either approaching or actual. Also see all up (with).

Example Sentences

When it’s all over, with a vote in Parliament likely on Wednesday evening, the prime minister is expected, perhaps narrowly, to keep his Rwanda policy alive.

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"You still feel a sense of pride and relief when it's all over with," he adds.

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Whatever I’ve been through, it’s all over with now.

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“My sense of it, though I can’t prove it, is that it’s all over with by Election Day 2020.”

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“It introduces so much confusion and chaos into a situation that by the time it’s all over with he’s the only one who really knows what he thinks, including his own staff,” said the former official, who requested anonymity to candidly discuss Trump’s tactics.

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