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

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.

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.)

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

"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