gone with the wind

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gone with the wind

Fig. gone as if taken away by the wind. (A phrase made famous by the Margaret Mitchell novel and subsequent film Gone with the Wind. The phrase is used to make gone have a stronger force.) Everything we worked for was gone with the wind.

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DARIUS Danesh's flop musical Gone With The Wind has been axed after only 79 performances. Curtain falls on Darius's dream by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) A £4m stage adaptation of the classic novel Gone with the Wind is to go down as one of the biggest flops in West End history after closing more than three months early. £4m stage spectacular has gone with the wind by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk CAPTION(S): EMBRACEABLE Darius Danesh as Rhett Butler in the West End version of Gone With The Wind. FRANKLY, MY DEARS, HE'S A HERO by The Journal (Newcastle, England)			goes to show goes without saying goggle goggle at going going great guns going my way? going on going rate Going strong going to tell going, going, gone gol dern gold gold mine of information golden golden handcuffs golden opportunity golly gone gone but not forgotten gone for a burton gone goose gone on gone to meet maker gone with the wind goner good good and good and proper good as done good as gold good as new good bet Good Book good die young good egg Good enough good enough for Good fences make good neighbors good for good for what ails you Good for you! Good golly. Miss Molly! good grief Good grief! Good luck! good many Good men are scarce good old boy good old days			Gone up in Flames Gone up in Flames Gone up in Flames gone up in smoke gone up in smoke gone up in smoke gone walkabout gone walkabout gone walkabout gone walkies gone way gone way gone way Gone West Gone West Gone West gone with a swing gone with a swing gone with a swing gone with a swing Gone With the Blastwave gone with the flow gone with the flow gone with the flow gone with the flow gone with the territory gone with the territory gone with the territory gone with the territory Gone with the Win gone with the wind Gone with the Wind (novel) gone without gone without gone without gone without gone without saying gone without saying gone without saying gone wrong gone wrong gone wrong gone wrong gonecyst gonecystis gonecystitis gonecystolith gonecystopyosis Goneim, Zakaria Goneness goner goner Goner Records Gonerea Gonerea Gonerea Goneria Goneria Goneria Goneril Goneril

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