dead and gone
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"We like to think of Joe as not being around rather than being dead and gone."
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2024
The Romans who crucified my brother are already dead and gone.
From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2024
If you teach somebody something, whoever they teach, even when you’re dead and gone, you’re constantly getting blessings even when you’re in the grave.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
“When you hear that Ball name, just like you hear the Hiltons and the Rockefellers and all that, when I’m dead and gone, you going to remember that Ball name,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2021
“But Mama,” I said, “she couldn’t have eaten pea vine. The pea vine is all dead and gone this time of year.”
From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson
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