dead and buried
Speech parts
1. dead and buried - Adjective
2. dead and buried - Phrase
Meaning
(idiomatic) Of an issue, moot, passed, irrelevant, forgotten.
(idiomatic) Of a project or plan, wholly dispensed with; never to be completed or revived.
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As Lewin writes, the Soviet system may be dead and buried but it lives on in Russia's search for a national identity.
Not surprisingly some of the very self-same PDP leaders who had joined Obasanjo and Jonathan in pronouncing zoning and power rotation dead and buried or pretended it never existed are now in the forefront of those that are condemning Tambuwal’s defiance.
Mayo were pouring forward as Derry tired and when young sub Conor Loftus hit a quick 1-1, Derry looked dead and buried but not so.
No doubt the jailing of Olabode George and the others for corruption as a movers and shakers of politics in Nigeria is a cause for hope that the war on corruption is far from dead and buried.
Shanneal told The Sunday Post “I felt that because Eilish was dead and buried that there was no priority or need to seek justice,”
Seven minutes later the game was dead and buried as Sean Kearney beat his man before being brought down while bearing down on goal.