"Long gone are the days of a job for life, where you spent your adult life working your way up the career ladder at the same company" what is the meaning of "long gone" in the sentence above? and I a

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"Long gone are the days of a job for life, where you spent your adult life working your way up the career ladder at the same company" what is the meaning of "long gone" in the sentence above? and I am not sure about "Long gone are the days of a job for life"means，Is it partial inversion sentence? Anyone can help me? Thank you

Jun 10, 2021 3:22 PM

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Using “long gone” in this case emphasizes that the modern situation is completely different, and the old way is never coming back!

June 10, 2021

Long gone means that it hasn't been around / available for "a long time", but this so-called "long time" could be any point in the past actually. It's an expression; a "figure of speech"

June 10, 2021

You’re right, this is an example of inversion. We could also say “The days of having a job for life are long gone”, meaning that those days have been over for some time, they are in the past.

June 10, 2021

"a job for life" means having a single job for your whole working life. "Long gone" means this has not happened for a long time. The sentence means that it no longer happens that people work for a single company their whole working lives.

June 10, 2021

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