be a goner informalDIEif someone is a goner, they are soon going to die, fall, be caught etc 〔某人〕快要完蛋,大限已到
Someone hit me from behind and I thought I was a goner.
有人从背后打我,我以为这下完了。
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be a goner• Colmon Chan, manager of Datacom Systems, believes the fishis a goner -- all because of a tree.
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goner• It was past it, a goner, way past its sell-by date.• Suffice to say keep your skisparallel or you're a goner.• When one of the plane's engines went out, I thought I was a goner.• In 1995, Major again appeared to be a political goner when inner-party squabblingthreatened to bring his government down.