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a goner
Idioms and Phrases
Something or someone that is dead, doomed, ruined, or past recovery, as in If this new drug doesn't work, he's a goner ; or Without a working transmission, my car's a goner . Synonyms of this idiom, such as a gone goose or chicken or gosling , are no longer heard as much. [ Slang ; mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Any doubt that Crowley was a goner was erased Wednesday, when Bass — who’s generally fairly reserved and nonconfrontational — said through a spokesperson that Crowley hadn’t warned her about the fire risk leading up to Jan. 7.
Teacher-turned-citizen detective Diarra Brickland may be a goner for a guy who ghosts her after a one-night stand.
Now, he’s a goner, delivering Sir Keir Starmer a headache rather than a handshake.
When a tree has 25 or more exit holes, it’s probably a goner, Durbin said.
And they have concluded the number, but not the policy itself, is an albatross around their neck - and so it is a goner.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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