gone north about

== English == === Pronunciation === === Verb === gone north about (idiomatic, obsolete, nautical) Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning. (idiomatic) Dead. === References === Partridge, Eric and Beale, Paul (2002, Routledge) ."he's gone north about." A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch phrases, fossilised jokes and puns, general nicknames, vulgarisms and such Americanisms as have been naturalised. Partridge, Eric and Beale, Paul (1986, Routledge). "gone north about." A dictionary of catch phrases: British and American, from the sixteenth century to the present day.