gone aloft

English

Adjective

gone aloft (not comparable)

1. Having passed away.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 115:

     Our dear jackdaw had "gone aloft" long before this, I grieve to say; and our sorrow was a common one shared by the whole settlement.