gone aloft

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gone aloft (not comparable)

  1. Having passed away.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 115:
      Our dear jackdaw had "gone aloft" long before this, I grieve to say; and our sorrow was a common one shared by the whole settlement.