Far away, forever, as in I don't know where it is--to hell and gone, or I can keep talking to hell and gone but it will do no good. This hyperbolic term dates from the first half of the 1900s.
| Idioms: to hell and gone |
Far away, forever, as in I don't know where it is--to hell and gone, or I can keep talking to hell and gone but it will do no good. This hyperbolic term dates from the first half of the 1900s.
| gone (Idiom) | |
| hell (Idiom) | |
| The Devil Checks Up (1944 Comedy Film) |
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