gone with the wind
Adjective
Meaning
gone with the wind
(idiomatic, euphemistic, poetic) dead
Examples
I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
That's a powerful lucky rabbit's foot. I got the part in Gone With the Wind because of it. I got my Warner contract, thanks to it.
And of course I'm in the press all the time. So many books have been written about me; Into thin air, up in the air, Gone with the wind.
Here's to Cisco an' Sonny an' Lead Belly too An' to all the good people that traveled with you Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.