"gone by lunchtime" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to a sudden termination of employment, when an employee is told to pack up their belongings and be \"gone by lunchtime\".",
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      "expansion": "gone by lunchtime",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 April 8, Audrey Young, “Long list of people glad to see Murray McCully gone”, in New Zealand Herald",
          "text": "Foreign policy could not remain with Lockwood Smith who told visiting US Senators that New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy would be \"gone by lunchtime.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 September 6, “Editorial: Poor are the biggest losers in high-stakes political game”, in The Dominion Post",
          "text": "It's a meaningless race to the bottom of populist politics that undermines the complexity of tackling poverty as an endemic, intergenerational issue; that reduces it to something comfortably dealt with in the space of an electoral cycle – gone by lunchtime, perhaps?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 9, “Katya Jones and Seann Walsh to be booted off Strictly by lunchtime, claims BBC presenter”, in Irish Mirror",
          "text": "And the BBC's own Nicky Campbell has queried if the pair will be \"gone by lunchtime\" following allegations from the comedian's ex-girlfriend Rebecca Humphries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 29, Dan Satherley, “Immigrant drug lord Karel Sroubek should be 'gone by lunchtime' - Simon Bridges”, in Newshub",
          "text": "I'll tell you what the Aussies would do - this guy would be gone by lunchtime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 12, David Williams, “What Canterbury's water-bottling case tells us”, in Newsroom",
          "text": "Kaikoura District Council chief executive Stuart Grant said the group wanted “ECan gone by lunchtime. This is a chance to gut the organisation. If water is staffed by ECan, it is doomed.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Removed or cancelled right away."
      ],
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          "Removed",
          "remove"
        ],
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "right away",
          "right away"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gone by lunchtime"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "A reference to a sudden termination of employment, when an employee is told to pack up their belongings and be \"gone by lunchtime\".",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "phrase"
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      "expansion": "gone by lunchtime",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "phrase",
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        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2017 April 8, Audrey Young, “Long list of people glad to see Murray McCully gone”, in New Zealand Herald",
          "text": "Foreign policy could not remain with Lockwood Smith who told visiting US Senators that New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy would be \"gone by lunchtime.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017 September 6, “Editorial: Poor are the biggest losers in high-stakes political game”, in The Dominion Post",
          "text": "It's a meaningless race to the bottom of populist politics that undermines the complexity of tackling poverty as an endemic, intergenerational issue; that reduces it to something comfortably dealt with in the space of an electoral cycle – gone by lunchtime, perhaps?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 9, “Katya Jones and Seann Walsh to be booted off Strictly by lunchtime, claims BBC presenter”, in Irish Mirror",
          "text": "And the BBC's own Nicky Campbell has queried if the pair will be \"gone by lunchtime\" following allegations from the comedian's ex-girlfriend Rebecca Humphries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 29, Dan Satherley, “Immigrant drug lord Karel Sroubek should be 'gone by lunchtime' - Simon Bridges”, in Newshub",
          "text": "I'll tell you what the Aussies would do - this guy would be gone by lunchtime.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 December 12, David Williams, “What Canterbury's water-bottling case tells us”, in Newsroom",
          "text": "Kaikoura District Council chief executive Stuart Grant said the group wanted “ECan gone by lunchtime. This is a chance to gut the organisation. If water is staffed by ECan, it is doomed.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Removed or cancelled right away."
      ],
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          "Removed",
          "remove"
        ],
        [
          "cancel",
          "cancel"
        ],
        [
          "right away",
          "right away"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gone by lunchtime"
}