Language: en
Meaning: (idiomatic,humorous)Something is gone and never coming back.2008, Jan Mouritsen,Organisational Capital: Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising, Routledge,→ISBN,page24:Organisational capital is typically described as dead. It is what has been left behind after human capitalhas left the building.2012, Fred Eyre,Kicked into Touch: Plus Extra Time, Random House,→ISBN,page 9:The quality-control departmenthas left the buildingand anyone with a halfdecent memory of a half-remembered match is out there publishing his memoirs. The scraps, the scrapes, the sessions — oh, what fun we had. Except we didn't have much fun, did we? Most of them are poor.2012, Bethany Palmer,The 5 Money Personalities: Speaking the Same Love and Money ..., Thomas Nelson,→ISBN,page29:When a Risk Taker gets a hold of an idea, reasonhas left the building. And with it go concern for other people's feelings, attention to details, and longrange planning.2012, Joelle Burnette,Cancer Time Bomb: How the Brca Gene Stole My Tits and Eggs, Joelle Burnette,→ISBN,page40:Just as I can run through a long succession of too many negative "what if" scenarios, my mom is equally efficient at producing a long list of what could go right. Of course, she generally takes it a step beyond into the absolute impossibility of positivity after the logic trainhas left the building; I find her rosy interpretations rather annoying and frustrating.2013, Josiane Feigon,Smart Sales Manager: The Ultimate Playbook for Building and ..., AMACOM,→ISBN,page47:Sales 1.0 —and its outdated and ineffective sales tactics—has left the building. Today's Sales 2.0 is fueled by tools.
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