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
“Forty years in jail? I might be dead and gone when he gets out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
For Luger, there was something devastating about seeing institutions find value in these human beings only after they were dead and gone.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022
“That’s long dead and gone in my opinion,” Spencer said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021
“What I meant quite literally,” she says/grinds, “is that the inimitable Grandma Sweetwine, dead and gone, was in the car, sitting next to me, plain as day.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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