Example
“After the council withdrew its funding, the stadium proposal was dead and buried.”
Dictionary details
Related idioms
Expressions connected by reviewed component words or topic tags.
dead to the world
Neutral · CEFR B2
sleeping so deeply that you are completely unaware of your surroundings
over my dead body
Informal · CEFR B2
a forceful refusal meaning that something will never be allowed
go downhill
Neutral · CEFR B1
to become progressively worse in condition, quality, or performance
go to seed
Neutral · CEFR B2
to become neglected, untidy, or generally worse in condition
go to the dogs
Neutral · CEFR B2
to deteriorate severely from an earlier, better condition
put paid to
Neutral · CEFR C1
to bring something, especially a plan or hope, to a definite end
Source methodology
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