far gone

comparative further gone · comparative farther gone · superlative furthest gone · superlative farthest gone

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see far, go, gone.

   You're pretty far gone, pretty far gone You're clear out here in Ore-y-gone.

   1992, Tom Nash, Twilo Scofield, The Well-traveled Casket: A Collection of Oregon Folklife, page 25

2. Almost entirely used up or elapsed.

   […] the night is far gone, the day is near. Let us then lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 13:12

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   That there is not any greater Remedy for the Gout than drinking Water, not only by young, bult old Men; many of whom, he faith, have drank cold Water for many Weeks, which hath succeeded so well, though though they were far gone in Years , that they found great Ease thereby, without that Offence to the Stomach, or Hindrance of Digestion, which some did not seem to fear.

   1739, John Smith, Gideon Crawfurd, The Curiosities of Common Water, page 19

   “The first rapid survey of the enemy's position inclined me to attack his left, but the day was far gone,” McClellan wrote later.

   2012, David S. Hartwig, To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, page 515

3. At an advanced stage of decline, disability or alteration, from some process, such as disease, decay, intoxication, infatuation, or moral weakness.

   I was sleeping on a cot at the foot of Miss Olivia's bed, and I woke up suddenly to hear her breathing far gone in deep rest.

   1999, Reynolds Price, Roxanna Slade: A Novel, page 43

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   This mischief is remedied if the wine be not too far gone, and possess strength and body, by racking it into a cask just emptied of sound wine, and sulphured.

   1836, Cyrus Redding, A History and Description of Modern Wines, page 46

   There is pardon for such a one — there is full pardon to those who are brought to repentance; but few of such men ever receive it; for when they are so far gone as to sin presumptuously, because they wish do it — to sin merely for the sake of showing their disregard for God and for God's law, we say of such, there is pardon for them, but it is wondrous grace which brings them into such a condition that they are willing to accept it.

   1857, Charles H. Spurgeon, Presumptuous Sins

   Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals.

   1897, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, page 42

   She can live as yet, of course, but from hand to mouth; but she has worked it out for herself, I think, that the very danger of Fawns, superficially looked at, may practically amount to a greater protection. THERE the lovers -- if they ARE lovers!-- will have to mind.They'll feel it for themselves, unless things are too utterly far gone with them.

   1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl

   Banks says the crew were rather sickly, they: "were pretty far gone with the longing for home, which the physicians have gone so far as to esteem a disease under the name of Nostalgia.

   2009, Arthur Kitson, The Life of Captain James Cook, page 102102