DEAD AND BURIED Definition & Meaning

dead and buried

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Also, dead and gone . Long forgotten, no longer in use, as in That argument is dead and buried , or No point in worrying about regulations that are long dead and gone . This figurative use of “having died” is usually applied to some issue. [Late 1800s]

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"You go from dead and buried to feeling the elation of being on top of the world."

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Presidential spokesman George Charamba expressed his disappointment about the clerics' pronouncement, telling the state-run Herald newspaper the matter was now "dead and buried".

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Speaking in July last year, shortly after being elected, Starmer said the plan was "dead and buried", arguing that the scheme had "never been a deterrent" and would only deport "less than 1%" of small boat arrivals.

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Together they performed “What Was I Made For?” — the Oscar-winning “Barbie” ballad that for some reason inspired a fan to throw an object at Eilish during a show last week in Arizona — and a thrashing “Happier Than Ever” before ending with “Birds of a Feather,” the siblings’ perversely breezy summer hit about longing for a love that lasts “till I rot away, dead and buried / Till I’m in the casket you carry.”

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But the "liberal peace" is now dead and buried.

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