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

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Forbes

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Project Gutenberg

I'd rather have seen what I've seen, and done what I've done, and now jump to Hell and gone, than be safe and sound this minute on Broadway.

From Project Gutenberg