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 exhilarating new angles on zombie-horror tropes that should be dead and buried by now—the societal allegory, the design of the undead themselves—are impressive. —David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2025

That was a not-so-oblique reference to Trump and the global free trade regime that Carney has said is all but dead and buried. —David Moscrop, Time, 30 Nov. 2025

In any case, an issue which seemed dead and buried has resurfaced — and taken the shine off an otherwise impressive victory against Barca. —Mario Cortegana, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2025

Set mostly in high-society Dallas – at the nexus of oil money, politics, religion, and crime – solving his beloved brother’s murder will take Jordan back to the streets, back across the border, back to an old alter-ego everyone, including him, had thought had been dead and buried. —Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025