dead and buried

idiom

variants or dead and gone

1

: no longer living : dead

He's been dead and buried for 50 years.

relatives long dead and gone

2

: no longer used or accepted

Those old family traditions are dead and buried.

The days of our childhood are dead and gone.

Examples of dead and buried in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The tiresome snobbery of the vinyl mafia might have convinced you that the compact disc, first introduced in Japan in October 1982 and the rest of the world in March 1983, was dead and buried. —Jesse Fink, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024

While The Acolyte may be dead and buried, Disney is plowing ahead with more new series, including Skeleton Crew, which is bound to be less controversial. —Paul Tassi, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

In a typical instance, factory bookkeepers in the Siberian city of Orsk pocketed wages supposedly paid to workers who were long dead and buried. —Gregory Feifer, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2016

Meanwhile, other technologies that appeared dead and buried have since madecomebacks. —Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 3 July 2024