DEAD AND BURIED
dead and buried: translation
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.
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{adj. phr.} Gone forever. * /Slavery is dead and buried in twentieth-century America./