Gone With the Wind

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

1. a novel (1936) by Margaret Mitchell.

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Gone With the Wind Cultural  

1. (1936) A phenomenally popular novel by the American author Margaret Mitchell. Set in Georgia in the period of the Civil War, it tells of the three marriages of the central character, Scarlett O'Hara, and of the devastation caused by the war.

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gone with the wind Idioms  

1. 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.

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The film version of Gone With the Wind, which premiered in 1939, is one of the most successful films ever made.

Example Sentences

It’s like Margaret Mitchell in “Gone With the Wind” spending a hundred pages on Confederate troop movements when the reader wishes she’d just get back to Scarlett and Melanie.

From Los Angeles Times

The book became an international bestseller, the biggest in the United States since “Gone With the Wind,” translated into 50 languages.

From Washington Post

The shooting happened in a prominent area of Atlanta about one block north of the iconic Fox Theatre and the Georgian Terrace Hotel, where cast members of “Gone With The Wind” stayed when the movie made its Atlanta premiere.

From Seattle Times

The shooting happened on Peachtree Street one block north of the Fox Theatre and Georgian Terrace Hotel, where cast members of "Gone With The Wind" stayed when the movie made its Atlanta premier.

From Fox News

The shooting happened on Peachtree Street one block north of the Fox Theatre and Georgian Terrace Hotel, where cast members of “Gone With The Wind” stayed when the movie made its Atlanta premier.

From Seattle Times