gone case

plural gone cases

1. IndiaSingaporeidiomaticSomeone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing.

   That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.

   2006, DanielS, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)

   2 more examples

   gone case – something that cannot be saved (eg. he’s a gone case).

   1991 August 9, Valerie Tan, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3, page 19

   don't worry, it is already a gone case, and nothing u can do about it but just watch.

   2006, Kantian [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)

   Synonyms: lost cause