gone north about en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, obsolete) Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.
..And he's gone on a cruise he liked better than the one you'd have had him; but that's no matter; I had better have gone north about twenty times over than come athwart you.
1827, William Bennett, Owain Goch:
- (idiomatic) Dead.