"gone case" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gone cases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gone case (plural gone cases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Indian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singapore English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Singlish",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991 August 9, Valerie Tan, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3, page 19",
          "text": "gone case – something that cannot be saved (eg. he’s a gone case).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, DanielS, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
          "text": "That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kantian [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
          "text": "don't worry, it is already a gone case, and nothing u can do about it but just watch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing."
      ],
      "id": "en-gone_case-en-noun-QiBSMMo7",
      "links": [
        [
          "irredeemable",
          "irredeemable"
        ],
        [
          "hopeless",
          "hopeless"
        ],
        [
          "doomed",
          "doomed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singapore, India, idiomatic) Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lost cause"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "Singapore",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gone case"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "gone cases",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gone case (plural gone cases)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Indian English",
        "Singapore English",
        "Singlish"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1991 August 9, Valerie Tan, w:The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, →OCLC, section 3, page 19",
          "text": "gone case – something that cannot be saved (eg. he’s a gone case).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, DanielS, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
          "text": "That ex-lecturer-to-be confirm gone case liao.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kantian [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)",
          "text": "don't worry, it is already a gone case, and nothing u can do about it but just watch.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "irredeemable",
          "irredeemable"
        ],
        [
          "hopeless",
          "hopeless"
        ],
        [
          "doomed",
          "doomed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Singapore, India, idiomatic) Someone or something that is deemed irredeemable, hopeless and beyond help; a doomed person or thing."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lost cause"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "India",
        "Singapore",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "gone case"
}