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English Idioms :: gone gosling
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gone.html - {n.}, {slang} A person for whom there is no hope. * /Herbert's grades have been so low that he is a gone goose for the year./ * /The man was a gone gosling when a policeman caught him breaking the store window./ |
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English Idioms :: gone with the wind
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gone.html - {adj. phr.} Gone forever; past; vanished. * /All the Indians who used to live here are gone with the wind./ * /Joe knew that his chance to get an "A" was gone with the wind when he saw how hard the test was./ Compare: DOWN THE DRAIN. |
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Traditional English :: gone
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gone.html - adj. 1 (of time) past (not until gone nine). 2 a lost; hopeless. b dead. 3 colloq. pregnant for a specified time (already three months gone). 4 sl. completely enthralled or entranced, esp. by rhythmic music, drugs, etc. be gone depart; leave temporarily (cf. BEGONE). gone away! a huntsman's cry, indicating that a fox has been started. gone goose (or gosling) colloq. a person or thing beyond hope. gone on sl. infatuated with. [past part. of GO(1)] |
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Traditional English :: goner
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gone.html - n.
sl. a person or thing that is doomed, ended, irrevocably lost, etc.; a dead person. |
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English Idioms :: gone gosling
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gone.html - {n.}, {slang} A person for whom there is no hope. * /Herbert's grades have been so low that he is a gone goose for the year./ * /The man was a gone gosling when a policeman caught him breaking the store window./ |
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English Idioms :: gone with the wind
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gone.html - {adj. phr.} Gone forever; past; vanished. * /All the Indians who used to live here are gone with the wind./ * /Joe knew that his chance to get an "A" was gone with the wind when he saw how hard the test was./ Compare: DOWN THE DRAIN. |
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