Something or someone that is dead, doomed, ruined, or past recovery, as in If this new drug doesn't work, he's a goner; or Without a working transmission, my car's a goner. Synonyms of this idiom, such as
a gone goose or chicken or gosling, are no longer heard as much. [Slang; mid-1800s]
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