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gone by the board

gone by the board is the past participle of go by the board.

Meaning of go by the board

Verb

go by the board (third-person singular simple present goes by the board, present participle going by the board, simple past went by the board, past participle gone by the board)

  1. (idiomatic) To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.
  2. (idiomatic) To be superseded, rejected, or obliterated; to pass by with little consequence; to amount to nothing.
    • How many cups of tea I drank, because Dora made it, I don’t know. But, I perfectly remember that I sat swilling tea until my whole nervous system, if I had had any in those days, must have gone by the board.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

Questions about gone by the board

What is gone by the board the past participle of?
Gone by the board is the past participle of go by the board.

Words near gone by the board in the dictionary

  1. gone both ways
  2. gone brrr
  3. gone bust
  4. gone by
  5. gone by lunchtime
  6. gone by the board
  7. gone by the name of
  8. gone by the wayside
  9. gone bye-bye
  10. gone cahoots
  11. gone case

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