Idiom
gone case
Meaning
Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That old car is a gone case, so do not buy it.”
“The project was such a gone case that the manager decided to cancel it entirely.”
“After the final negotiations failed, the diplomats realized the peace treaty was a gone case and prepared for the inevitable conflict.”
Examples
simple
“That old car is a gone case, so do not buy it.”
contextual
“The project was such a gone case that the manager decided to cancel it entirely.”
complex
“After the final negotiations failed, the diplomats realized the peace treaty was a gone case and prepared for the inevitable conflict.”
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