Gone Phrases

Phrases

• A bit missing
• A soft answer turneth away wrath
• Absent minded professor
• Absent parent
• Absent without leave
• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• An apple a day keeps the doctor away
• Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
• Away go troubles down the drain (Roto-Rooter advertising slogan)
• Away in a manger
• Away with the fairies
• Away with you
• Beaver away at
• Been and gone
• Been around the block a few times
• Been had
• Been here before
• Been in the wars
• Been there, done that, got the T-shirt
• Blast from the past
• Blaze away at
• Blow away the cobwebs
• Blow someone away
• Blown away
• Blue are the hills that are far away
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Buy Opera today And make this banner go away (Opera advertising slogan)
• Calgon, take me away! (Calgon advertising slogan)
• Cart away
• Colour me gone
• Come Away with Me (Norah Jones album)
• Conspicuously absent
• Dance the night away
• Dead and gone
• Died and gone to heaven
• Do away with
• Dream away ()
• Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been (Beatles song lyric)
• Elvis has left the building
• Exit stage left
• Explain away
• Far and away
• Fire away
• First past the post
• For years we've been making our products as if lives depend on them (Squib drug products advertising slogan)
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Frasier has left the building (A catchphrase from Frasier)
• Fresh out of
• Fritter away
• Get away from it all
• Get away with it
• Get away with murder
• Get away with you (An exclamation of surprise)
• Get away with you!
• Get away! (Lunn Polly advertising slogan)
• Get carried away
• Get your end away
• Give the game away
• Give the show away
• Going away (Going on holiday)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Going, going, gone
• Gone Dolally
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Gone before
• Gone but not forgotten
• Gone fishing
• Gone for a Burton
• Gone tits up
• Gone to a better world
• Gone to pot
• Gone to seed
• Gone to the bad
• Gone to the dogs
• Had a good war (to have been successful during a military campaign)
• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Hang a left
• Hasten away
• Have it away
• He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
• Her Honeymoon - and it should have been mine! (Listerine Mouthwash advertising slogan)
• Here today gone tomorrow
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• I coulda been a contender, instead of a bum, which is what I am (On The Waterfront)
• I was miles away
• I wouldn't put it past him
• I'll Be Missing You (Puff Daddy with Faith Evans and 112 song)
• I'm outta here
• I've been brokenhearted, blue since the day we parted (ABBA lyric)
• I've been cheated by you since I don't know when (ABBA lyric)
• I've been had
• In from left field
• It takes your breath away
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)

• It's all gone pear shaped
• It's been a hard day's night, and I'd been working like a dog (Beatles song lyric)
• Keep left
• Left Hook (Nickname of Jeff Lacy)
• Left footer
• Left for dead
• Left hanging
• Left holding the baby
• Left in the lurch
• Left out in the cold
• Left right and centre
• Left right, left right, march
• Left standing
• Left to your own devices
• Left wing
• Lock him up and throw away the key
• Long lost
• Look away now
• Lost and gone forever
• Missing in action
• Missing link
• Missing you already
• Missing, presumed lost
• Mistakes have been made
• Mum's gone to Iceland (Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• My Baby Left Me (Elvis Presley song)
• My stomach thinks my throat's been cut
• Normal service has been resumed
• Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly song)
• Not a hundred miles away
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• On the go
• Out front. Pulling away (Goodyear Tyres advertising slogan)
• Out of left field
• Out of the picture
• Over the hills and far away
• Past caring
• Past it
• Past its sell-by date
• Pearls past price
• Pine away
• Political correctness gone mad
• Pussycat pussycat, where have you been? (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rain, rain go away, come again another day (line from nursery rhyme)
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Sail away
• Salt away
• Shovel ready (a building project in which all the preliminaries have been arranged)
• Slave away at
• Slip, Slidin' Away (Paul Simon song)
• Slip, sliding away
• Slog away
• Soothe it away the Oraldene way (Oraldene advertising slogan)
• Squirrel away
• Stash away
• Sweet sixteen and never been kissed
• Switch hitter (A baseball expression denoting a batter who can hit left or right handed)
• Take your breath away
• The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The age of miracles is past
• The bird has flown
• The departed
• The die has been cast
• The dim distant past
• The dish ran away with the spoon (line from nursery rhyme)
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The one that got away
• The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there (the opening line of The Go-Between)
• The right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing
• Throw away the key
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Tom Tom the pipers son stole a pig and away he ran (line from nursery rhyme)
• Twistin' The Night Away (Sam Cooke song)
• Two left feet
• Up, Up And Away (Jimmy Webb song)
• Up, up and away
• Up, up and away with TWA (Trans World Airways advertising slogan)
• Waste away
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away (Robert Maynard Hutchins quotation)
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)
• While away the hours
• While away the time
• Whittle away at
• Wishing your life away
• Without a trace
• You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby (Bing Crosby song)
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)
• You can kiss that one goodbye
• You know when you've been Tango'd (Tango advertising slogan)
• You look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
• You'll wish you had never been born
• You've Got To Hide Your Love Away (The Beatles song)

Related

• After all, tomorrow is another day (Gone With the Wind)
• Been and gone
• Colour me gone
• Dead and gone
• Died and gone to heaven
• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn (Gone With the Wind)
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Going, going, gone
• Gone Dolally
• Gone With The Wind (Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh movie)
• Gone before
• Gone but not forgotten
• Gone fishing
• Gone for a Burton
• Gone tits up
• Gone to a better world
• Gone to pot
• Gone to seed
• Gone to the bad
• Gone to the dogs
• Hair today gone tomorrow
• Here today gone tomorrow
• It's all gone Pete Tong (Cockney rhyming slang for gone wrong)
• It's all gone pear shaped
• Lost and gone forever
• Mum's gone to Iceland (Iceland Supermarkets advertising slogan)
• Political correctness gone mad
• To boldly go where no man has gone before (A catchphrase from Start Trek)
• Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger song)