to hell and gone
adv1
Done to a very great degree or distance.
- "I got some treatment at the Emergency ward and came home. I was worried to Hell an' gone about you, but after a while the telephone started ringing. Police and FBI."1954, Ian Fleming, “True or False?”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 85:
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