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to hell and gone
Idioms and Phrases
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.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.”
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.
“Theorists often pounce on a datum and interpret it to hell and gone,” said Mumma.
"They've shrunk to hell and gone, sir," said the Bo's'n, with superfluous explanation.
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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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