far gone

Definitions

1. 1

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   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.
2. 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.
   • “The first rapid survey of the enemy's position inclined me to attack his left, but the day was far gone,” McClellan wrote later.
3. 3

   At an advanced stage of decline, disability or alteration, from some process, such as…

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

   • 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.
   • 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.

The neighborhood