to hell and gone

Idioms  

1. Far away, forever, as in I don't know where it is—to hell and gone, or I can keep talking to hell and gone but it will do no good. This hyperbolic term dates from the first half of the 1900s.

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Example Sentences

There was a smash of some kind on the Bakersfield division, and she's to hell and gone behind her time.

From The Octopus : A story of California by Norris, Frank

If too wet, the ink of the letter spread to hell and gone.

From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)

That’s ’way 189 to hell and gone down at the south end of the outfit, where nobody goes from here more’n about once in six months.

From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.

"Nantes's way off to hell and gone anyway," said wild Dan Cohan, taking a gulp of champagne that he held in his mouth a moment, making his mouth move like a cow ruminating.

From Three Soldiers by Dos Passos, John