Talk:real gone

Added 3 refs hidden in attention box, clearly notable 1940s-1960s phrase. In ictu oculi (talk) 04:22, 23 December 2012 (UTC)

real gone
This is real "very" + gone "excellent, wonderful". DCDuring TALK 10:01, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm. From the 60's and very dated already. I would probably keep it for sentimental reasons. SemperBlotto (talk) 14:29, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Not heard of it. What DCDuring says makes sense but with no personal experience of it I abstain. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:33, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
 * That's just ducky. DAVilla 06:15, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I would not have guessed that that was the meaning of "real gone" - I would have assumed it meant "very dead," or "very senile" keep Furius (talk) 10:09, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you saying that, if you didn't get the meaning from context and cared to look it up, you would not have thought to looked up gone and real, but would have looked up real gone? DCDuring TALK 14:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * We better get an entry for gone cat. Fortunately we already have far gone. Long gone uses a secondary sense of long and gonehas a different distribution of possible meanings that it does in other collocations. DCDuring TALK 14:52, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm saying that I would have looked up real and gone, and I would probably have picked the wrong meaning of gone. Of course that depends on context - but I'm not going to look up any word or phrase if the context makes its meaning entirely clear. If, however, the sentance is something like "he's real gone" then context isn't going to offer a great deal of help. Furius (talk) 06:33, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
 * "He's real gone." is not "context". Attributes of "he" and speaker, for example, are part of the context. It seems to me that it would be better as part of a usage example at the right sense of gone. Many common collocations that are claimed to be idioms seem to me more appropriate as usage examples. DCDuring TALK 14:27, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

Kept for lack of consensus to delete. bd2412 T 14:33, 27 November 2013 (UTC)