to hell and gone

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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“Till the rains begin. Then this old river will come down out of the mountains yonder and carry you and this bridge — and a dozen bridges with it — to hell and gone.”

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Since the East End School was way to hell and gone across town and the children who lived east of Main Street attended there, I will not bother with it.

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“Theorists often pounce on a datum and interpret it to hell and gone,” said Mumma.

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"They've shrunk to hell and gone, sir," said the Bo's'n, with superfluous explanation.

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Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is, and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hell and gone.

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