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

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

Still, a two-state solution is not yet dead and buried. —Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2025

So then, is vibe coding and writing now the de facto standard… and, is coding itself dead and buried? —Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025