dead and buried

dead and buried
dead and buried
1. Lit. dead and interred, and soon to be forgotten. •

Now that Uncle Bill is dead and buried, we can read his will.

2. Fig. gone forever. •

That kind of old-fashioned thinking is dead and buried.

* * *
{adj. phr.} Gone forever. * /Slavery is dead and buried in twentieth-century America./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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