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Gone With the Wind
[ wind ]
noun
- a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.
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Notes
The film version of Gone With the Wind , which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.
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Idioms and Phrases
Disappeared, gone forever, as in With these unforeseen expenses, our profits are gone with the wind . This phrase became famous as the title of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, which alludes to the Civil War's causing the disappearance of a Southern way of life. It mainly serves as an intensifier of gone .Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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