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1908 N.Z. Truth Nov. 8 He left him and remarked to another ‘screw’, ‘Paddy's gone in a million’, and in two days Paddy..was dead.

1913 Bulletin (Sydney) 25 Sept. 22/2 Inebriated, loaded..gone a million.

1916 C. J. Dennis Battle of Wazzir in A. H. Chisholm Making of Sentimental Bloke (1963) 131 Fer young Bill wus gone a million, an' 'e never guessed the game.

1922 A. Wright Colt from Country 142 What hope would you have when that came out? You'd be gone a million.

1930 K. S. Prichard Haxby's Circus xvi. 187 If it weren't for you, I'd be gone a million on the minx.

1941 Coast to Coast 209 No doubt about it, Sim was right. If they drop their bundles they're gone a million.

1958 N.Z. Listener 23 May 6/4 We scraped in in that game, only because Elvidge scored his usual try... Otherwise, we were gone a million.

1976 Australian 1 Mar. 1/2 ‘Gough's gone. Gone a million. He's had it.’