What does go mean

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bill goes through parliament (=it goes through the process of being made a law)

▪ The bill is currently going through Parliament.

a bomb explodes/goes off

▪ Forty people were injured when the bomb exploded.

▪ A 200 pound bomb went off in the car park.

a bug is going around (=a lot of people have it)

▪ A lot of staff are off because there’s a bug going round.

a bus goes/leaves

▪ The last bus went ten minutes ago.

a candle goes out

▪ A sudden draught made the candles go out.

a case comes/goes to court

▪ When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.

a case comes/goes to trial

▪ By the time her case went to trial, her story had changed.

a case goes/comes to trial

▪ If the case ever went to trial, he would probably lose.

a company goes bankrupt/goes out of business (=stops doing business after losing too much money)

a company goes bustinformal (= goes bankrupt)

a company goes into liquidation (=is closed and sold in order to pay its debts)

a company goes to the wallinformal (= goes bankrupt)

a deal goes through/ahead (=it happens as arranged)

▪ It’s 99% certain that the deal will go through.

a fire goes out (=it stops burning)

▪ After several hours, the fire eventually went out.

a flame goes out (=stops burning)

▪ Try not to let the flame go out.

a headache goes away (=it stops)

▪ I'd like to lie down for a bit to make my headache go away,

a level falls/goes down/decreases

▪ Pollution levels have fallen slightly.

a level rises/goes up/increases

▪ The level of unemployment has increased.

a month passes/goes by

▪ Seven months went by before he returned.

a number falls/drops/goes down/decreases/declines

▪ The number of new houses being built is falling steadily.

a number increases/goes up/grows/rises

▪ The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.

a phase...going through

▪ It’s just a phase he’s going through.

a price goes down/falls/decreases

▪ In real terms, the price of clothes has fallen over the last ten years.

a price goes up/rises/increases

▪ When supplies go down, prices tend to go up.

a prize goes to sb (=they get it)

▪ The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.

a road leads/goes/runs somewhere

▪ We turned into the road leading to the village.

a rumour goes around (also a rumour circulatesformal) (= a rumour is passed among people)

▪ There are a lot of rumors going around that they’re going to sell the company.

▪ Not long afterwards, ugly rumours began to circulate.

a shudder ran/passed/went through sb

▪ A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers.

a story goes around (=people tell it to each other)

▪ A story went around that she had been having an affair.

a wheel turns/goes around

▪ The wheels went slowly around.

all go

▪ It was all go from 8.00 until we finished at 5.00.

an alarm clock goes off (=rings at a particular time)

▪ What time do you want the alarm clock to go off tomorrow?

an alarm goes off (also an alarm soundsformal)

▪ The thieves fled when an alarm went off.

approach/reach/go into etc double figures

▪ The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.

as time goes on (=as time passes)

▪ I understood him better as time went on.

be in/go into/come out of hiding

▪ He went into hiding in 1973.

be/go beyond the bounds of credibility/reason/decency etc

▪ The humor in the movie sometimes goes beyond the bounds of good taste.

be/go in the tank

▪ Sales can’t keep going up, but that doesn’t mean the industry is going in the tank.

carry on/go on regardlessBritish English (= continue what you are doing)

▪ You get a lot of criticism, but you just have to carry on regardless.

cheer went up

▪ A great cheer went up from the crowd.

come/go around a corner

▪ At that moment, a police car came around the corner.

come/go ashore

▪ Seals come ashore to breed.

come/go/pass etc through an entrance

▪ People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.

consumption falls/decreases/goes down

▪ Coal consumption has fallen dramatically.

consumption rises/increases/goes up

▪ Consumption of unleaded fuel rose by 17% in 1992.

continue/grow/go unchecked

▪ We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.

dead and goneinformal (= completely dead)

▪ Let’s face it, we’ll all be dead and gone soon.

enough to go round (=enough of something for everyone to have some)

▪ Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?

enter/go into/join a profession

▪ Hugh intended to enter the medical profession.

fall/go down in value

▪ There is a risk that the shares may fall in value.

far gone

▪ She’s pretty far gone – can you drive her home?

fire alarm went off

▪ We were in the middle of an exam when the fire alarm went off.

found...heavy going

▪ I found his latest novel a bit heavy going.

get the adrenalin going (=make you feel nervously excited)

▪ There’s nothing like a good horror film to get the adrenalin going .

get/go from A to B

▪ Hiring a car was the best way to get from A to B.

give/go into/provide etc specifics

▪ Thurman was reluctant to go into specifics about the deal.

go a long way towards (=will help to reach a goal)

▪ Your contributions will go a long way towards helping children in need .

go about your chores (=do your chores)

▪ I got up and went about my chores, feeding the cats and making tea.

go according to plan (=happen in the way that was arranged)

▪ If everything goes according to plan, we’ll finish in January.

go all gooey

▪ Babies make her go all gooey.

go all out

▪ Canada will have to go all out on the ice if they want to win.

go all shyBritish English (= to suddenly become very shy)

▪ Oh, have you gone all shy, Jenny?

go and get

▪ Shall I go and get the phone book?

go back on an agreement (also renege on an agreementformal) (= not do what you agreed to do)

▪ Republican leaders accused Democrats of trying to renege on an agreement to have a House vote.

go back on your promise (=break it)

▪ They were angry that the company had gone back on its promise.

go back to square one (=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time)

▪ Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.

go back to/return to your seat

▪ The audience clapped as he returned to his seat.

go back/get back to sleep (=sleep again after waking up)

▪ He shut his eyes and went back to sleep.

go badly wrong (=go wrong in a serious way)

▪ Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.

go badly/seriously wrong

▪ The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.

go before/be put before parliament (=be considered by parliament)

▪ The Bill goes before Parliament on November 16.

go behind...back (=do something without telling me)

▪ I should have realized that he’d go behind my back.

go boating

▪ Let’s go boating on the lake.

go bowling

▪ Do you want to go bowling with us Friday?

go by the name of ... (=be called something by people, often when that is not your real name)

▪ As he had long red hair, he went by the name of Red.

go by/travel by train

▪ We decided to go by train.

go click

▪ Soon there were photographers all around him going click, click, click.

go cold turkey

▪ addicts who are made to go cold turkey

go crazy

▪ Dad will go crazy when he hears about this.

go deaf (=become deaf)

▪ By the time he was 50 he had begun to go deaf.

go disastrously wrong

▪ Help was close at hand in case the stunt went disastrously wrong.

go down a hill

▪ It's best to use a low gear when you are going down steep hills.

go down in history (=be remembered for many years)

▪ She will go down in history as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.

go downtown

▪ I have to go downtown later.

go ex-directory

▪ After several threatening calls, we decided to go ex-directory.

go far enough (=did not have a big enough effect, so that more needed to be done)

▪ Many people felt that the new law did not go far enough.

go fifty-fifty (on sth) (=share the cost of something equally)

▪ We went fifty-fifty on a new TV set.

go for a curry (=go to a restaurant to eat a curry)

▪ How about going for a curry on Saturday night?

go for a drink (=go to a pub or bar)

▪ Why don’t we go for a drink after work?

go for a drive

▪ Let’s go for a drive along the coast.

go for a medical/dental etc check

▪ She advised me to go for a medical check.

go for a paddle

▪ If it’s not too cold, we can go for a paddle.

go for a pee/have a peeBrE,take a pee American Englishnot polite

▪ Have I got time to go for a pee before we leave?

go for a ride

▪ He went for a ride in a private plane piloted by a friend.

go for a row

▪ Why don’t we go for a row?

go for a spin

▪ Let’s go for a spin in the country.

go for a test

▪ I’m going for an eye test next week.

go for a walk

▪ Let’s go for a walk on the beach.

go for an interview (also attend an interviewformal)

▪ I went for an interview at a software company yesterday.

go for an option (=choose an option)

▪ Which option do you think they'll go for?

go for/have/take a piss

▪ I need to have a piss.

go for...swim

▪ Let’s go for a swim.

go forward

▪ After the Labour Party conference, he stated that we could now go forward as a united party.

go from boom to bust (=change from doing very well economically to doing very badly)

▪ The Mexican economy went from boom to bust very quickly.

go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite)

▪ Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other.

go green (=change so that it harms the environment less)

▪ The industry has promised to go green.

go hiking

▪ Utah is a great place to go hiking.

go horribly/terribly wrong

▪ From that moment on, everything went horribly wrong for the team.

go in a direction

▪ I can give you a lift if you're going in my direction.

go in convoy (=go together, in separate vehicles)

▪ We could all meet up somewhere and go in convoy.

go into a coma

▪ Mum went into a coma and died soon afterwards.

go into a dive (=start to move downwards)

▪ The plane was in trouble, then it went into a dive.

go into action

▪ American soldiers are going into action against the Mujahadin.

go into business (=start working in business)

▪ A lot of university graduates want to go into business.

go into detail (=give a lot of details)

▪ He refused to go into detail about what they had said at the meeting.

go into ecstasies (=become very happy and excited)

go into exile

▪ Napoleon's wife and sons also went into exile.

go into teaching (=become a teacher)

▪ Some very talented and dedicated people go into teaching.

go into the army

▪ When Dan left school, he went into the army.

go into/enter into an alliance with sb

▪ Spain then entered into an alliance with France.

go into/enter the charts

▪ The album entered the UK charts at number 2.

go jogging

▪ I go jogging every morning.

go lame (=become lame)

go mad (=start to feel crazy)

▪ I’d go mad if I was stuck at home all day.

go madBritish English (= become very angry)

▪ Look at this mess! Mum will go mad!

go missingBritish English

▪ The scissors have gone missing again.

go missingBritish English

▪ Nearly 100,000 young people go missing in Britain each year.

go mouldyBritish English (= become mouldy)

▪ The bread’s gone mouldy.

go near

▪ She told the children not to go near the canal.

go numb

▪ The anaesthetic made his whole face go numb.

go nuts (=become crazy)

▪ I’m going to go nuts if I don’t find a new job soon.

go off sth/sbBritish English

▪ I used to enjoy tennis, but I’ve gone off it a bit now.

▪ She seems to have gone off Mark since he’s grown a beard.

go off your foodBritish English (= to stop wanting to eat)

▪ Since becoming ill, he has gone off his food.

go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff

▪ She stormed out in a huff.

go on a courseBritish English

▪ My company wanted me to go on a course in management skills.

go on a cruise

▪ What about going on a cruise down the Nile?

go on a demonstrationBritish English (= take part in a demonstration)

▪ I've never been on a demonstration before.

go on a diet (=start eating less or only some types of food)

▪ I really ought to go on a diet.

go on a journey (=make a long journey)

▪ We are going on a journey to a strange country.

go on a trip (=go somewhere and come back)

▪ I’ve been on a coach trip to France.

go on an expedition

▪ We decided to go on a shopping expedition to London.

go on an expedition

▪ After the war, Swainson went on an expedition to Patagonia.

go on holiday

▪ The children were excited about going on holiday.

go on leave (=start your time away from work)

▪ I’ll get the report to you before you go on leave.

go on strike/come out on strike (=start a strike)

▪ An estimated 70,000 public sector workers went on strike.

go on the bus/use the bus (=travel by bus)

▪ It's easier to go on the bus than to drive.

go on the Internet

▪ I went on the Internet to find some information for my assignment.

go on trial

▪ Taylor went on trial accused of fraud.

go on vacation

▪ I'm going on vacation next month.

go on your instinct(s)informal (= trust your instincts)

▪ I just went on my instincts and refused his offer.

go on/go for a picnic

▪ If it's fine, we'll go for a picnic.

go on/go for a picnic

▪ If it's fine, we'll go for a picnic.

go onstage

▪ Even today I get nervous before I go onstage.

go organic (=buy only organic food, or use only organic methods to farm)

▪ Not all families can afford to go organic.

go (out) for a meal

▪ How about going out for a meal tonight?

go out for/to dinner (=go and eat in a restaurant)

▪ Would you like to go out for dinner on Saturday?

go out for/to lunch (=have lunch at a restaurant)

▪ I don't often go out to lunch, as it's expensive.

go out of business (=stop doing business because of financial problems)

▪ In a recession smaller firms often go out of business.

go out of existence (=stop existing)

▪ If a buyer isn't found, this famous old club could go out of existence.

go out of fashion (=stop being fashionable)

▪ Long evening dresses are going out of fashion.

go over a limit (=go beyond a limit)

▪ Borrowers who go over the spending limit set by the credit card company are penalised.

go overdrawn

▪ I try not to go overdrawn if possible.

go privateBritish English (= pay for medical treatment instead of getting it free at a public hospital)

go quietly

▪ Speculation is growing that Grogan will be replaced at the end of the season, and he is unlikely to go quietly.

go riding

▪ Shall we go riding on Saturday?

go round/around

▪ Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?

go running

▪ Did you go running this morning?

go rusty

▪ a new metal that will never go rusty

go sailing

▪ Bud has invited us to go sailing this weekend.

go shopping

▪ She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.

go skiing

▪ We’re going to go skiing in Colorado this winter.

go soft

▪ Cook the onions until they go soft.

go solo (=work for himself)

▪ Amos quit the company, determined to go solo .

go somewhere by bike

▪ I usually go to work by bike.

go stale

▪ Other marriages might go stale, but not theirs.

go stir-crazy

▪ I’m going to go stir-crazy if I don’t get out of this house.

go swimming

▪ Let’s go swimming this afternoon.

go through a divorce (=experience getting a divorce)

▪ I was going through a divorce and it was a very painful time.

go through a gate

▪ They went through the gate into the orchard.

go through a procedure

▪ We had to go through the whole procedure again.

go through a process (also undergo a processformal) (= experience a process)

▪ A lot of companies are going through a process of change.

▪ The system underwent a process of simplification.

go through a stage

▪ Most young people go through a rebellious stage.

go through an ordeal (also undergo an ordealformal) (= experience something that is very bad or difficult)

▪ I'd already gone through the ordeal of a divorce once.

▪ The girl will not have to ungergo the ordeal of giving evidence in court.

go through the hassle of doing sth (=experience the problems of doing something)

▪ The shirt didn’t fit so I had to go through the hassle of taking it back to the shop.

go through the pain barrier

▪ Iona reached the final, but she had to go through the pain barrier to get there.

go through the rigmarole of

▪ I don’t want to go through the rigmarole of taking him to court.

go through/look through/search through drawers (=try to find something by looking in drawers)

▪ I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.

go tinkle

▪ Do you have to go tinkle?

go to a clinic (also attend a clinicformal)

▪ Pregnant women should attend an antenatal clinic at least once a month.

go to (a) college

▪ After university I went to drama college for a year.

go to a concert (also attend a concertformal)

▪ Do you want to go to the concert in the park this weekend?

go to a conference (also attend a conferenceformal)

▪ Hundreds of delegates are attending the conference.

go to a festival (also attend a festivalformal)

▪ An estimated 20,000 people had attended the festival.

go to a lecture (also attend a lectureformal)

▪ Have you been to any of Professor MacPherson’s lectures?

▪ I recently attended a lecture by a noted historian.

go to a lesson (also attend a lessonformal)

▪ I have to go to my French lesson now.

go to a match

▪ I love going to football matches.

go to a meeting (also attend a meetingformal)

▪ All staff members are expected to attend the meeting.

go to a movie

▪ How about going to a movie?

go to a performance (also attend a performanceformal)

▪ We can go to the evening performance if you prefer.

▪ The Princess attended a performance of The Magic Flute at the London Coliseum.

go to a restaurant

▪ We went to a restaurant in the King’s Road.

go to a wedding (also attend a weddingformal)

▪ I’m going to a wedding on Saturday.

▪ About 100 people attended the wedding.

go to an event (also attend an eventformal)

▪ Unfortunately, the prime minister will not be able to attend the event.

go to an exhibition (also attend/visit an exhibitionformal)

▪ We went to an exhibition of Russian art at the National Gallery.

go to bed early

▪ I think I’ll go to bed early tonight.

go to bed

▪ What time do you go to bed at night?

go to charity

▪ Any profit that she makes from her writing goes to charity.

go to church (also attend church formal) (= go to a regular religious ceremony in a church)

▪ Do you go to church?

go to court (=take legal action)

▪ The costs of going to court are very high.

go to hospitalBritish English, go to the hospital American English

▪ The pain got worse and she had to go to the hospital.

go to jail

▪ They’re going to jail for a long time.

go to mass

▪ What time do you go to mass?

go to prison

▪ She went to prison for theft.

go to school

▪ Did you go to school in Paris?

go to sea (=go to work on a ship)

▪ He went to sea when he was eighteen.

go to (see) a play

▪ While we were in New York, we went to a play.

go to sleep (=start sleeping)

▪ He turned over and went to sleep.

go to the bank

▪ I went to the bank and took out $80.

go to the bathroom (=use a toilet)

▪ I really need to go to the bathroom .

go to the beach

▪ They've gone to the beach for the weekend.

go to the cinema

▪ Why don’t we go to the cinema tonight?

go to the doctor

▪ I’d been having bad headaches so I went to the doctor.

go to the expense of doing sth (=do something that costs a lot of money)

▪ The council must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealing through the courts.

go to the gym

▪ I go to the gym as often as I can.

go to the loo (=use the toilet)

▪ I need to go to the loo .

go to the opera (=go to a performance of opera)

▪ We go to the opera regularly.

go to the storeAmerican English (= go to a store that sells food)

▪ I need to go to the store for some milk.

go to the toilet (also use the toilet especially BrE)

▪ He got up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night.

go to university

▪ Her daughter was about to go to university.

go to war (=become involved in a war)

▪ It has been said that democracies don’t go to war with each other.

go to/attend a class

▪ I’ve got to go to a science class now.

go to/come to a party (also attend a partyformal)

▪ Are you going to Tom’s party?

▪ About 500 people will attend a party in her honour.

go to/visit the library

▪ I need to go to the library to return some books.

go tragically wrong (=so that death or serious injury results)

▪ A father and son died in a fire after a good deed for a friend went tragically wrong.

go unchallenged

▪ She couldn’t let a statement like that go unchallenged.

go unrecognized

▪ an illness that can go unrecognized for years

go up the wallBritish English

▪ I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall.

go up/come down in sb’s estimation (=be respected or admired more or less by someone)

go up/down a ladder

▪ Be careful going down the ladder!

go whale-watching

▪ You can go whale watching off the coast.

go/come on stage

▪ I never drink before going on stage.

go/come/arrive by taxi

▪ I went back home by taxi.

goes abroad

▪ She often goes abroad on business.

goes climbing

▪ He goes climbing nearly every weekend.

goes clubbing

▪ She always goes clubbing when she’s in New York.

goes for a...jog

▪ Mike goes for a two-mile jog every morning.

goes for...run

▪ She usually goes for a run before breakfast.

goes off on a riff

▪ He goes off on a riff about the problems of being middle-aged.

goes ping

▪ The microwave goes ping when the food’s ready.

goes smoothly

▪ It’ll take about three hours if everything goes smoothly.

goes stale (=becomes stale)

▪ French bread goes stale very quickly.

goes to chapel

▪ Bethan goes to chapel every Sunday.

goes to show (=proves)

▪ It just goes to show how much people judge each other on how they look.

goes undercover

▪ a cop who goes undercover to catch drug dealers

goes unreported

▪ Rape is a crime that often goes unreported.

go/fall into a trance

▪ She went into a deep hypnotic trance.

go/fall into decline (=become less important, successful etc)

▪ At the beginning of the century the cloth trade was going into decline.

going bald

▪ Dad started going bald when he was in his thirties.

going blind (=becoming blind)

▪ He was slowly going blind.

going cheap (=selling for a lower price than usual)

▪ I bought this house because it was going cheap.

going crazy

▪ I feel so alone, sometimes I wonder if I’m going crazy.

going fishing

▪ Terry’s going fishing at Lake Arrowhead next weekend.

going for a ramble

▪ I quite like the idea of going for a ramble one weekend.

going full blast

▪ I had the gas fire going full blast.

going head-to-head with

▪ Courier companies are going head-to-head with the Post Office.

going home

▪ I’m going home now. See you tomorrow.

going over the same ground (=talking about the same things)

▪ At meetings, we just keep going over the same ground.

going right

▪ Everything’s going right for him at the moment.

going senile

▪ She worries about going senile.

going to arbitration (=someone is being asked to arbitrate)

▪ The dispute is going to arbitration .

going to fly

▪ News is that the plan for the new hotel isn’t going to fly.

going under (=becoming unconscious)

▪ The doctor injected something into my arm and I immediately felt myself going under.

going...to the shops

▪ I’m just going down to the shops.

gone AWOL

▪ Two soldiers had gone AWOL the night before.

gone bad

▪ This milk has gone bad.

gone flat (=become flat)

▪ Have you checked that the batteries haven’t gone flat?

gone horribly wrong

▪ The plan had gone horribly wrong.

gone insane

▪ Why did you do that? Have you gone insane?

gone into remission

▪ The cancer has gone into remission.

gone into spasm

▪ Tom’s jaw muscles had gone into spasm.

gone kaput

▪ The TV’s gone kaput.

gone midnight (=after midnight)

▪ You can’t phone her now – it’s gone midnight!

gone off

▪ Do you think the meat’s gone off?

gone on a binge

▪ Ken’s gone on a binge with his mates.

gone on an outing

▪ They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert’s birthday.

gone out on a limb (=taken a risk)

▪ He’d gone out on a limb to help us.

gone through hell

▪ She must have gone through hell every day, the way we teased her about her weight.

gone to extremes

▪ She had gone to extremes to avoid seeing him.

gone unrecorded

▪ Many of the complaints have gone unrecorded.

gone unrewarded

▪ His efforts have not gone unrewarded.

gone up the spout

▪ My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout.

gone...soggy

▪ The sandwiches have gone all soggy.

go...on deck

▪ Let’s go up on deck.

go/pass through a cycle

▪ Advanced economies seem to go through a regular cycle.

go/pass unnoticed

▪ His remark went unnoticed by everyone except me.

go/remain undetected

▪ Doctors can make mistakes and diseases can remain undetected.

go/run through a checklist (=read it to see what still needs doing)

▪ I’ll just run through the checklist one more time.

gossip goes around (=it is told by one person to another)

▪ It was a small village, and any gossip went around very quickly.

go/travel by bus

▪ I usually go to work by bus.

go/travel by car

▪ I try to use public transport instead of going by car.

go/travel by coach

▪ We spent three days travelling by coach across France.

go/turn grey

▪ She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.

go/turn red

▪ Every time you mention his name, she goes bright red.

go/turn to sb for advice

▪ People often go to him for advice about their problems.

go/turn/flush/blush crimson

▪ The boy blushed crimson.

go/turn/flush/blush scarlet

▪ Eileen blushed scarlet at the joke.

go/walk down a mountain

▪ She lost her way as she went down the mountain.

go/walk up a mountain (also ascend a mountainformal)

▪ Carrie and Albert went up the mountain, neither of them speaking as they climbed.

hardly a day/week/month etc goes by without/when (=used to say that something happens almost every day, week etc)

▪ Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down.

how’s it going

▪ So how’s it going at work these days? Still enjoying it?

if anything can go wrong, it will

▪ I’m sure that if anything can go wrong, it will.

in years gone by (=in the past)

▪ The old fort defended the island in years gone by.

increase/rise/go up in value

▪ The dollar has been steadily increasing in value.

it went against the grain

▪ Mary is always honest and it went against the grain to tell lies.

join/go into the services

▪ Maybe you should join the services.

keep the momentum going (also sustain the momentumformal) (= keep being successful)

▪ Hopefully we can keep the momentum going and win the next game as well.

let sth go for £20/$200 etc

▪ I couldn’t let it go for less than £300.

let...go to pot

▪ The government has let the whole country go to pot.

look/go/read through your notes

▪ I read through my notes before the exam.

made...go weak at the knees

▪ His smile made her go weak at the knees.

make a pilgrimage/go on (a) pilgrimage

▪ the chance to go on pilgrimage to Mecca

make...go with a swing

▪ everything you need to make your party go with a swing

make...up as...go along (=think of things to say as I am speaking)

▪ I’ve given talks so many times that now I just make them up as I go along.

money goes on sth (=is spent on something)

▪ All the money went on doctor’s bills.

move/go upmarket

▪ a brand that’s moved upmarket (= it is trying to attract richer people)

my/our sympathy goes out to sbformal (= used to formally express sympathy)

▪ Our sympathy goes out to Peggy in her great loss.

no going back (=you will not be able to get back to your previous situation)

▪ If you decide to marry him, there will be no going back.

nowhere to go/live/sit etc

▪ I have no job and nowhere to live.

On your marks – get set – go (=said to start a race)

▪ On your marks – get set – go.

return to work/go back to work

▪ His doctor agreed he was fit enough to return to work.

rough going (=a difficult and unpleasant experience)

▪ If there is a recession, next year will be very rough going.

sales fall/drop/go down (=become lower)

▪ European sales have fallen by 12%.

sales increase/rise/grow/go up

▪ Sales rose by 9% last year.

sb's hearing goes (=someone becomes unable to hear)

▪ His hearing has gone in one ear.

sb’s anger goes away/subsides/fades (=it stops)

▪ I counted to ten and waited for my anger to go away.

▪ His anger slowly subsided.

sb’s face goes/turns pale (=becomes pale)

▪ I saw her face go pale when he walked in.

sb’s face goes/turns red (=becomes red)

▪ His face went red with embarrassment.

sb’s income falls/goes down

▪ Average income fell by one third during this period.

sb’s income rises/increases/goes up

▪ They saw their income rise considerably over the next few years.

see how it goes/see how things go (=used when you are going to do something and will deal with problems if they happen)

▪ I don’t know. We’ll just have to see how it goes on Sunday.

see how it goes/see how things go (=used when you are going to do something and will deal with problems if they happen)

▪ I don’t know. We’ll just have to see how it goes on Sunday.

shares fall/go down (=their value decreases)

▪ Shares fell sharply on the London Stock Market yesterday.

shares rise/go up (=their value increases)

▪ The company’s shares rose 5.5p to 103p.

something funny going on

▪ There’s something funny going on here.

something/nothing/everything goes wrong

▪ If something goes wrong with your machine, you can take it back to the dealer.

sth’s origins go back to sth (=used to say when or how something began)

▪ The school’s origins go back to the 12th century.

stick to/go by the rulesinformal (= obey them)

▪ We all have to stick to the rules.

take/go for/have a wander

▪ I had a bit of a wander round the shops.

thanks go to sb

▪ Above all, our thanks go to Barbara Lambourne.

the award goes to sb/sth (=that person, film etc is chosen to receive it)

▪ The poetry award went to Lisa Mueller for ‘Alive Together'.

The clocks go forward

▪ The clocks go forward this weekend.

the cost falls/goes down

▪ Airline costs have fallen considerably.

the cost rises/goes up

▪ The cost of electricity has risen again.

the going rate (=the usual amount paid)

▪ She could not afford to pay them the going rate.

The going...heavy (=it was muddy for the horse races)

▪ The going was heavy at Cheltenham yesterday.

the heating goes off

▪ The heating goes off automatically when the room is warm enough.

the legend goes (=says)

▪ Two people, so the legend goes, refused to flee.

the line went dead (=suddenly stopped working completely)

▪ There was a click, then the line went dead.

the mail goes (out) (=it leaves an organization to be sent)

▪ What time does the mail go out?

the pain comes and goes (=keeps starting and stopping)

▪ The pain comes and goes but it’s never too severe.

the pain goes away (also the pain subsidesformal) (= becomes less severe)

▪ He lay still until the pain had subsided to a dull ache.

the phone goes/is dead (=the phone line stops working or is not working)

▪ Before he could reply, the phone suddenly went dead.

the post goes (=it is collected)

▪ The first post goes at 7.30 am.

the quality goes up/down

▪ I think the quality has gone down over the years.

the rate goes down (also the rate falls/decreasesmore formal)

▪ We are expecting unemployment rates to fall.

the rate goes up (also the rate rises/increasesmore formal)

▪ The crime rate just keeps going up.

the rent increases/goes up

▪ The rent has gone up by over 50% in the last two years.

the story goes (=this is what is people say happened)

▪ The story goes that he was drowned off the south coast, but not everyone believed it.

the sun sets/goes down (=disappears at the end of the day)

▪ It is a good place to sit and watch the sun go down.

the tide goes out

▪ They sat on the beach watching the tide going out.

there is a party going on

▪ Somewhere near the hotel there was a party going on.

things go well/badly etc

▪ If things went well, we would double our money in five years.

▪ How did things go?

things go wrong

▪ If things go wrong, they’ll blame me.

time passes/goes by

▪ As time passed, she thought less and less about her family back home.

tough going (=difficult to read)

▪ I find his books pretty tough going.

trail went cold (=they could not find any signs of him)

▪ Police tracked him to Valencia and there the trail went cold .

turn/go pale

▪ He suddenly went pale.

turn/go pro

▪ Most young talented players are determined to turn pro.

turn/go sour (=become sour)

visit/go to a gallery

▪ The children visited the gallery on a school trip.

went a bit mad (=spent a lot of money)

▪ We went a bit mad and ordered champagne.

went aboard

▪ They finally went aboard the plane.

went according to plan

▪ Everything went according to plan, and we arrived on time.

went all right (=happened with no problems)

▪ Tony was worried about the meeting but it went all right.

went as planned (=happened the way it had been planned)

▪ The wedding was fine and everything went as planned.

went bankrupt

▪ The firm went bankrupt before the building work was completed.

went below (=to the lower level of the ship)

▪ Captain Parker went below, leaving Clooney in charge.

went crashing

▪ The plates went crashing to the ground.

went dark (=became dark)

▪ Suddenly, the room went dark.

went diving

▪ We went diving on the coral reef.

went downhill...rapidly

▪ Grandma fell and broke her leg, and she went downhill quite rapidly after that.

went down...pit (=worked in a coal mine)

▪ Dad first went down the pit when he was 15 years old.

went flying

▪ The ball bounced off the wall and went flying into the garden next door.

went for a stroll

▪ They went for a stroll in the park.

went from bad to worse (=got even worse)

▪ When she arrived, things just went from bad to worse!

went further (=said or did something more extreme)

▪ Whaling in Australia was stopped. But the Australian government went further and proposed a global ban.

went into a nosedive

▪ Everyone screamed as the plane suddenly went into a nosedive.

went into a nosedive

▪ The economy went into a nosedive.

went into a slide

▪ The car went into a slide.

went into convulsions

▪ His temperature was very high and he went into convulsions.

went into extra time

▪ The match went into extra time.

went into hysterics

▪ She went into hysterics when she heard about her husband.

went into liquidation (=were closed)

▪ Hundreds of small businesses went into liquidation .

went into receivership

▪ The company went into receivership with massive debts.

went into...skid (=started to skid)

▪ He slammed on the brakes and we went into a long skid.

went limp

▪ His body suddenly went limp and he fell down on the floor.

went mad (=became very excited)

▪ When Italy scored, the crowd went mad .

went on hunger strike

▪ A total of 300 students occupied the building and over 50 went on hunger strike.

went on safari

▪ They went on safari in Kenya.

went on the rampage

▪ Rioters went on the rampage through the town.

went on...bender

▪ The whole team went on a bender and were arrested.

went on...spree

▪ They went on a drinking spree.

went pitter-patter

▪ Anna’s heart went pitter-patter as she opened the letter.

went platinum

▪ Eight of Denver’s albums went platinum.

went pop (=made a sudden short sound)

▪ The balloon went pop.

went quiet

▪ When they walked into the pub, the place went quiet.

went quiet

▪ The crowd went quiet.

went rotten

▪ The apples went rotten very quickly.

went septic

▪ a cut that went septic

went sightseeing

▪ She swam and sunbathed, went sightseeing, and relaxed.

went skating

▪ We went skating in Central Park.

went skinny-dipping

▪ As soon as it got dark, we all went skinny-dipping.

went snorkeling

▪ We went snorkeling in Hawaii.

went sprawling

▪ I tripped on a stone and went sprawling on the pavement.

went surfing

▪ When we were in Hawaii, we went surfing every day.

went swimming

▪ We went swimming on Saturday.

went through the ritual

▪ He went through the ritual of lighting his cigar.

went through...contortions

▪ He went through a series of amazing contortions to get Karen a work permit.

went unanswered

▪ The children’s cries for help went unanswered.

went unheard

▪ Her cries for help went unheard.

went unheeded

▪ Her warnings went unheeded.

went walking

▪ We went walking in the hills.

went wide

▪ His throw to first base went wide.

went without a hitch

▪ The whole show went without a hitch.

went youth hostelling

▪ I went youth hostelling in the Peak District.

went...funny

▪ After his wife died he went a bit funny.

went...several ways (=went in different directions)

▪ They shook hands and went their several ways.

when the going gets tough (the tough get going)informal (= used to say that when a situation becomes difficult, strong people take the necessary action to deal with it)

you can’t go wrong (=you cannot make a mistake)

▪ Turn right and then right again--you really can’t go wrong.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

ahead

▪ Meanwhile, the company hopes to go ahead later this month with the launch of its Creditphone mobile telephone service.

▪ You go ahead, but paint the windows.

▪ If all of the tax breaks are doing that much damage, go ahead and eliminate them.

▪ We gon na go ahead and forget about it.

▪ In the event, an activity-based curriculum went ahead, albeit somewhat clandestinely.

▪ The next step is to decide whether or not to go ahead.

▪ It's been on the drawing board for some time now but hasn't gone ahead because of lack of investment.

all

▪ There were many tracks all going the same way, each searching for a firmness absent from the rest.

▪ As her fingers are all gone she finds cooking most difficult.

▪ They'd all gone to bed the night before when I'd returned from a last noggin with Harry.

▪ It was all going to happen, now.

▪ We all went after girls: Richard always got them.

▪ He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others.

▪ Babur hopes very much that it is all going to work out for Stuart.

▪ It's one we are all going to have to acquire, thought Grimma, ignoring Granny's hurt stare.

along

▪ The cart went along by the garden wall, and round to the back door.

▪ They went along fine, just fine until she saw it all again while she was dancing.

▪ I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.

▪ To go along, grab one of the garlic knot rolls from the bread basket.

▪ The brainy men all went along To see that nothing should go wrong.

▪ Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.

▪ Starting from the left-hand side, Martin works across the picture, completing the work in small areas as he goes along.

▪ Few initiatives succeed without improvising strategies as you go along.

anywhere

▪ Now I don't go anywhere without it!

▪ But we rarely went anywhere with the other girls and we were curious about them and envious, too.

▪ That makes me feel bad because I don't want to go anywhere else.

▪ Neither Harriet nor David would normally have wanted to go anywhere, for they loved their home.

▪ He says this a new, modern ship, so it can go anywhere, in any weather!

▪ It was Saturday, and he had no need to go anywhere.

▪ Worth a visit - but there's really no need to go anywhere.

▪ They didn't have to go anywhere.

around

▪ I can't go around my friends begging for a home, can l?

▪ We worked on it for two weeks, going around in a circle.

▪ No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.

▪ At bridge 14 you can join the Bierton Circular Walk which goes around the village of Bierton.

▪ I was based in the executive offices and I was going around rendering lobbies and nightclubs for the Ramada.

▪ They went around the house by the gravel drive to the east.

▪ I went around for a time speaking with Mrs Roosevelt at one honorable drive after another, and she liked me.

away

▪ The rich young owner's expensive brown shoes went away.

▪ She was the one who never went away.

▪ If he decides to follow the highway he will go away, and everything w ill be all right again.

▪ Mr Black said they had no right to enter his home and told them to go away.

▪ But without a unifying ideology, once the outside threat goes away unity quickly disappears.

▪ What about housing animals while their owners go away?

▪ Sometimes side effects go away after the body adjusts to the new medication.

back

▪ But as we go back to much earlier periods, the signal systems are complex in different ways again.

▪ I went back up to the office and checked the contents, taking the items out one by one.

▪ They were still uncomfortable, so I went back into the optician.

▪ When food goes back into the refrigerator, growth begins to slow down, but only as the food chills.

▪ In 1682, he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years.

▪ More people are going back to work with their hands than ever before.

▪ We tend to regard it as a relatively new phenomenon, yet there are examples in cricket going back over 120 years.

▪ She went back to Milton abruptly, instead of moving permanently to New York as she had been planning to do.

▪ In fact if the books are anything to go by then he is doing everything wrong.

▪ It feels as if days have gone by in the ten hours since they drove this route in the opposite direction.

▪ The first hour went by slowly enough, the second even more slowly.

▪ A week does not go by without representatives from around the world arriving to view the Tucson cluster model.

▪ It's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by.

▪ As the days went by, however, and no further incident was reported, he began to relax.

▪ Then the most unbelievable thing happens: A week goes by.

down

▪ In fact, he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh.

▪ And it is almost certain that no reporter will go down into the mines to find out.

▪ The share price has only gone down because the market is generally down.

▪ People began to feel haunted, cursed, doomed to die, their foreheads sealed when Wisconsin Steel went down.

▪ She hesitated on the stairs, knowing it would be difficult to sleep - then went down to the kitchen.

▪ None of the friendlies would have been able to see let alone reach them under the dense canopy where they went down.

▪ Slightly irritated he thinks that there is something wrong with the lock and goes down to reception for assistance.

▪ When the mill went down, Tony Roque fled.

far

▪ The situation is too far gone.

▪ Some cases were too far gone.

▪ The ball bounced their way, but sometimes it didn't quite go far enough.

▪ But the relationship between computers and chess goes far deeper than the contest for supremacy on the chess board itself.

▪ I'd been too far gone for that.

▪ The philosopher, by contrast, has the right to go far beyond such language.

▪ Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly, I couldn't have gone far, and anyway I didn't mind walking.

▪ Most unusual they were; the freedom Taylor enjoyed went far beyond that of Humphreys.

forward

▪ Two years ago she got legal aid, and her case went forward.

▪ Moderating economic expansion in recent months has reduced potential inflationary pressures going forward.

▪ The business is either going forward or going backward because everyone else is going forward.

▪ Finally she left her seat and went forward to accept the Lord, leaving her Bible on the seat.

▪ I cocked the old gun and squeezed the trigger, and it just went forward too slowly to fire a round.

▪ The country faces a pivotal presidential election in June in which the choice is quite simply to go forward or regress.

▪ Lily went forward to the wings and looked at the set.

▪ Longstreet merely sent another note directing that if the artillery fire had the desired effect the attack was to go forward.

further

▪ But we can go further than that.

▪ And to some other friends, I would go further and talk about the right to strike.

▪ Shares are near to their record high for the year and could go further.

▪ Ideally, I would go further than the McCain-Feingold bill, laudable as it is.

▪ He reached the corner and stopped, for some reason reluctant to go further.

▪ Indeed, this uniqueness goes further in human beings than in any other animal.

▪ Why go further, especially if it will benefit only the rich at the expense of everyone else?

▪ If anything, START-2 could have gone further, pushing the limits below 2, 000.

home

▪ I want to go home, a small voice wailed inside.

▪ They shook hands and got in their cars and went home to supper.

▪ Finally, before he went home, Teesdale looked into the hanging-shed.

▪ Once she had a family whom she went home to visit on holidays.

▪ He went home, with his misery increased.

▪ Of course she'd go home, if anything went wrong with him.

▪ I went circling as the rains came down, the track cleared and all the other initial trialists went home.

▪ Poor fellow, perhaps he ought to go home and rest.

▪ Should she go in for a drink?

▪ Discreet and quiet, Lizzie came out and got the tray and said good night and went in again.

▪ People who were going in for fines and just daft shoplifting and that were getting their bairns taken away.

▪ Mementos went in, sacrifices came out, but the loss was not material.

▪ They was at the gate, so we couldn't go in.

▪ When Harry and Kate make love, which is frequently, they go in for lots of lighted candles.

▪ So I knew we had to keep quiet about it until the patent went in.

▪ Before going in, he remembers the envelopes, and opens the second one.

never

▪ So whether you're visiting Perth or Penzance, you need never go short of cash.

▪ We hunted only a few times but by the end I knew I would never go hunting again.

▪ The search didn't extend very far because Elsie never went more than two or three miles from home.

▪ When I was a girl, I left my country too and never went back.

▪ I never went there to stay, but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills.

▪ In fact, I almost never go to the office.

▪ Why could I never go out with them, be like them or have as nice clothes as them?

▪ She moved thousands of miles away from her family when she was twenty-one, and never went back home.

off

▪ He goes off again when I give him his cloth back.

▪ My great-grandparents were aghast at the idea of a married woman, with a child, going off to school.

▪ But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses.

▪ So one day when my grandfather came in and began insulting my grandmother, my father went off on him.

▪ But that's all the more reason why we should go off this time with a car well filled, eh?

▪ Alice Hawthorne died almost immediately after the bomb went off.

▪ Lee was stupid, going off like that on his own.

▪ When we got to the bridge just over the crest of the hill, I lost it and we went off.

▪ As hair gets tied back, so nail varnish comes off and old, stain-absorbing clothes go on.

▪ When the light went on, a dozen or so large flies began buzzing around the room, which unsettled him.

▪ The 20 teams were put into four pools, with the top two from each going on to the quarter-finals.

▪ The survey did not ask where the boss was while all this was going on.

▪ They also do not know what is going on or what to do next.

▪ Go on now, if I need anything else it call you.

▪ Answer me that, go on!

▪ I hear the machinery in the walls catch and go on.

out

▪ At other times he would find Marcus talking to Irina, and ready to go out for a walk.

▪ Black has gone out with Doc Martens combat boots, and color has come in.

▪ Dot wished, after all, that Gloria hadn't gone out because Gloria liked parties and now she was missing it.

▪ Charles, we're going out to eat.

▪ I am not going out there to jump in a manure pile.

▪ And just to prove it, he went out and did it!

▪ You ought to go out more.

over

▪ Don't want me to go over yet.

▪ I set my stuff down on a table and go over to the buffet line, which is pretty long.

▪ It took her three tries before it went over.

▪ A nice house-present to give the Soviets when he went over.

▪ He didn't go over to the Republic or see friends.

▪ We will get some money that normally camps out in stocks going over to the bonds for a while.

▪ Be careful not to go over the edge of the image.

▪ We changed our course when we got nearer, and went Over for a look-see.

round

▪ Even when the sun goes down, the world still has to keep going round.

▪ Sugar was the word going round.

▪ On the whistle. out went the feeder and after three or four chucks the tip went round.

▪ I understand that love makes the world go round.

▪ When there's no answer, they quickly go round to the rear.

▪ Others go round residential neighbourhoods with their carts collecting different kinds of scrap from shops and houses.

▪ The water-mill goes round and round.

straight

▪ Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole.

▪ Arrived this morning and went straight to the park for practice.

▪ Poem Frank O'Hara was open on the desk but I went straight for the directory.

▪ The ball went straight into the arms of San Diego linebacker Kurt Gouveia.

▪ Where there is a real emergency, the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures.

▪ The 2. 05 percent attrition rate the agency had managed to maintain promised to go straight through the roof.

▪ When the victims were allowed to flee, they went straight to the police.

▪ At last all seems to be coming together for the ex-con who wants to go straight.

through

▪ Most people met through casual pick-ups, going through to the Black Prince, which was the equivalent of the Vauxhall today.

▪ Riviera is going through what a lot of us go through, I guess.

▪ People say that I can handle myself, but they have no idea what some of us went through.

▪ I can relate to what they are going through.

▪ How would you expect me to go through all that, to create something like that?

▪ Then the gates opened and they went through.

▪ We were going through, and I didn't care whom we woke to do it.

▪ He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you don't realise what he goes through.

▪ I remembered going up in a gilt elevator.

▪ The shade went up, came down again, and shot skyward.

▪ It's large a low level route, sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells.

▪ Despite an 11 percent increase in the 1995 California grape harvest, wine prices for consumers will still go up.

▪ Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow, cheerless stairs she'd last climbed before her interview.

▪ Then, it went up again when lighting was decreased.

▪ Susan and I looked at each other, eyebrows going up under our hoods.

▪ The percentage of voters who label themselves independent keeps going up.

■ NOUN

bed

▪ How long before she could plead tiredness and go to bed?

▪ The blueprints went back under the bed.

▪ For example, we could see Keith going to his bed and being in his bed.

▪ Then he went to bed, having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp.

▪ You went to bed, didn't you?

▪ I think I'd gone to bed.

▪ When Fabia went to bed that night she felt as glum as she had when she had got up.

▪ When he went to bed he fell into a dead sleep.

college

▪ In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.

▪ C., this fall, went touring college campuses with her mom, &038;.

▪ You have to go to college don't you?

▪ I had forty cousins, and I was the only one of us who went to college.

▪ I went out to college to be smarter than them.

▪ She had a daughter about to go to college, and the tuition assistance plan was attractive.

▪ He went to agricultural college in Ireland and took a trip to New Zealand.

▪ Out of that initial group, five women have gone on to obtain college degrees, McKenzie said.

school

▪ If you didn't join one of these organizations you couldn't go to school.

▪ When I go to law schools to speak, I recognize them immediately.

▪ I went to Tintagel primary school a few months later.

▪ I went to graduate school so I could have a career teaching literature.

▪ We went to the same school - Geraldine was Head Girl and just about to leave and I was just beginning.

▪ Something must be going on at school.

▪ Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home.

▪ After that he would go to medical school and become a doctor who was also a handsome and talented musician and athlete.

things

▪ Sadly, things went terribly wrong.

▪ That was how it was with Master Yehudi: the better things went for us, the higher he set his sights.

▪ Not a chance, the way things are going.

▪ Do you ever get angry at some of the things that go on in election campaigns?

▪ They opened premises in the most prestigious part of the town. Things were going well, but old habits die hard.

▪ But things have only started going bad for him.

▪ The gamble had worked, when a dozen different things could have gone so terribly wrong.

▪ But the congressional intelligence committees are like a black box. Things go in without anything coming out.

way

▪ There is one other emerging technology that may go the whole way.

▪ But I think this will go a long way in determining where we are going.

▪ Marcos would seem to be prepared to go at least some way to meet Fox's proposals.

▪ They would have gone out of their way to say it, to shout it.

▪ Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way.

▪ Jim went out of his way for me a number of times the first couple of years he was here.

▪ But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even in mediaeval times.

▪ He says that they more or less go their separate ways, Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.

■ VERB

keep

▪ You need to consider what consequences, what additional motivating events or rewards you can use to keep you going.

▪ But as the strikes kept going, the companies became frightened, because their authority had collapsed.

▪ Oh, I see: that's why we need to keep going.

▪ Enough to keep them going for three days.

▪ Hope that a cure will be found for the disease is what keeps his wife going, DelVecchio said.

▪ Apparently they would rather spend it on buying gold and dollars which is all that keeps them going.

▪ At one point, Bessie Hall tried to give up, but Misner persuaded her to keep going.

let

▪ Because Habib will not let her go to the health center, the children have not been immunized.

▪ The only requirements are patience, a willingness to learn and a readiness to let go of the habits of a lifetime.

▪ Cory Selliker, his eyes watering under the brim of his black Earnhardt cap, heard Marchman's advice to let go.

▪ Whatever else it may have wanted, the blue tent wouldn't let its precious oxygen go willingly.

▪ She drove very slowly as if shock and anxiety made it almost impossible for her to let the car go forward.

▪ Tilda, who had been holding her breath, let it go.

▪ He's really let himself go since my old Dad died.

want

▪ Dutra, ideologically hostile to multinational companies for health and environmental reasons, wants farmers to go organic.

▪ My dad wanted me to go and live with him.

▪ I wanted to go to school.

▪ She would feel like a spoiled child insisting that she wanted to go home.

▪ I want to go on to college.

▪ He didn't want to go into any other kind of films.

▪ Why would she want to go with this man?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(be prepared to) go to the stake for/over sth

(go) back to the drawing board

▪ Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.

▪ For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.

▪ So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.

▪ Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.

▪ The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.

▪ They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.

▪ They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.

▪ You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.

▪ You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.

(go) hand in hand

▪ Emotional thinking, the next step in emotional develop-ment, and attention also go hand in hand.

▪ Most of us were born in captivity where domestication and maturation work hand in hand.

▪ On the Internet modernity and pluralism go hand in hand.

▪ Stars and superstition just seem to go hand in hand.

▪ The child walking hand in hand with her father.

▪ The rationality of faith goes hand in hand with the mystery of faith.

▪ They go hand in hand because the momentum of population growth is so great.

▪ This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.

(go) out of business

▪ But most analysts agree that many health insurance companies would be driven out of business.

▪ Farmers and ranchers are still going out of business on the plains today.

▪ If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out of business.

▪ It was assumed that I might well put a customer or two out of business.

▪ Now that the war was over the Navy was, in effect, out of business, and it sought repossession.

▪ Rather, the independent-minded newspapers believe that the government now wants to drive them out of business.

▪ The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.

▪ The league was out of business after three seasons.

(right) from the word go

▪ At the County Ground, the wolves were on the prowl right from the word go.

▪ I knew it was a deliberate attempt from the word go to bring the band down.

▪ In Damage, from Josephine Hart's novel, he gets more or less everything wrong from the word go.

▪ It was a nightmare from the word go.

▪ The marriage was a disaster from the word go, although I didn't realize this until it was all over.

▪ They are reflexes built into the system from the word go.

(you) go, girl!

a going concern

▪ Although its assets are notionally worth £10 billion, their market value as a going concern must be far less.

▪ But you and I know the Soviet Union is a going concern.

▪ In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.

▪ Prides Hill Kennels was a going concern.

▪ The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.

▪ The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.

▪ The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.

▪ To tell her that she and Piers were now a going concern?

a little (of sth) goes a long way

▪ A little ketchup goes a long way.

▪ Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.

▪ Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.

all systems go

▪ However, it was now all systems go for the future.

anything goes

▪ Don't worry about what to wear - anything goes at Ben's parties.

▪ With this season's fashions, anything goes.

▪ But it's a case of when you're down, anything goes.

▪ If anything goes wrong, she is there to alert the nurse.

▪ In the end humans will not adopt libertarian, anything goes values.

▪ The best thing about wraps is that anything goes.

▪ The world is ending, so anything goes.

▪ There is therefore the potential for personal distress if anything goes wrong.

▪ Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public.

▪ Whenever anything goes wrong, he blames it all on me.

as far as it goes

▪ What Kroll said was accurate, as far as it goes.

▪ My country has adopted individual rights in principle, but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.

▪ That's as far as it goes with me.

▪ That is encouraging as far as it goes.

▪ This self-defense strategy is fine as far as it goes, but it addresses only half of the prevention equation.

▪ Virtually all of it is right as far as it goes.

▪ We push it as far as it goes.

bang goes sth

be five/six/seven etc months gone

be getting/be going nowhere fast

be going great guns

▪ It is going great guns with special lines, the Fortress Alarm and the upgraded, fancy number, the Citadel.

be going places

▪ Alvin was part of it all now. Only 24, and he was going places.

▪ At only twenty-four, Ailey was going places - he was in a Broadway show.

▪ This company is clearly one that is going places.

▪ A test drive should convince you that Mazda are going places.

▪ I was going places, thinking and doing things I would never dream of in city civvies.

▪ I was really excited, believing that I was going places.

▪ Jonathon Morris, you will have gathered, is going places - and no one could be happier than the man himself.

▪ Only twenty-four, he was going places.

▪ Their Maria was going places, so he might as well keep her company.

▪ This woman, whose last performance was an extended run as a bartender, is going places.

be going spare

▪ So 10,000 posters are going spare, and the Tories are laughing.

be going strong

▪ The program is 20 years old this month and is still going strong.

▪ I told you I'd put things off until this practice is going strong.

▪ Over at Half House the party was going strong.

▪ We were going strong when the bedroom door opened.

▪ When I'd washed up, the ebb was going strong again.

be going to the dogs

be gone

▪ Look at Michelle - she's totally gone!

▪ Even the corrals had weeds in them, because the horses were gone.

▪ He did something unusual, but after 15 minutes he was gone.

▪ Mrs Doran was gone, Elsie was dead.

▪ One day, though, all this will be gone.

▪ One more such blow, I thought, face down in the sand, and I am gone.

▪ Ten minutes later Glover felt sure it would be all right if he looked to see if the chief was gone.

▪ The next year they are gone.

▪ Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever.

be gone on sb

▪ Arthur would be gone on the stroke of nine, and Ann too, if it was possible.

be good to go

▪ "Do you have all the hiking gear?" "Yeah, I'm good to go."

▪ I've got my shoes on and I'm good to go.

▪ We just need to get you a pair of skis and you're good to go.

▪ But if you're receiving money it would be better to go for the lump sum.

▪ He wandered a bit, and when it grew dark, he decided that it would be best to go home.

▪ If parking is difficult in a built-up area it may be better to go by public transport.

▪ If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone.

▪ It is best to go for fabrics which are stretch- and fade-resistant as well as stain- and mildew-resistant.

▪ We decided it would be best to go straight away and travel overnight, with me and Richie sharing the driving.

be in raptures/go into raptures

be in service/go into service

be selling/going like hot cakes

be/come/go halfway to doing sth

be/go (out) on the razzle

be/go down with sth

▪ I was having a really hard time and I went down with Isabel and my dad.

▪ I went down with nothing but a. 45-caliber pistol and a flashlight.

▪ Looking back, it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble.

▪ Mr Black paid them off on all the equipment which went down with it, but which I know was not destroyed.

▪ Outside linebacker Mike Morton, making his first start since Rob Fredrickson went down with season-ending shoulder surgery, had eight tackles.

▪ There was a sudden space when the man at Riven's shoulder went down with a cry.

▪ These kids are 13, 14, and they wan na be down with somethin'.

▪ Who knows what went down with them?

be/go on (the) record as saying (that)

be/go on the fritz

▪ My TV is on the fritz.

▪ Their appliances go on the fritz.

be/go on the prowl (for sth/sb)

be/go on the wagon

▪ Sometimes I would go on the wagon for a few days then have a binge.

be/go round the bend

▪ But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.

▪ I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.

▪ If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.

be/go/keep on about sth

▪ And they don't go on about his obvious flaws, like him being a doctor and having three dozen girlfriends.

▪ Everyone goes on about Cher's dresses, showing her navel.

▪ However, this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment.

▪ It sounded stupid the way she went on about loving the sea.

▪ It went on about 15 minutes too long.

▪ The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on about rubber.

▪ This made him wary as he went on about his chores and tried not to let Lucky see him.

▪ Why do I go on about this, I wonder.

be/go/keep on at sb

▪ A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men.

▪ But what's going on at No. 4 and No. 8 are free rides, nothing less.

▪ Funny stuff going on at the Olympics.

▪ He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up.

▪ I must say I was not totally happy about her going on at Yeo Davis, with me in the government.

▪ Something must be going on at school.

▪ There was some spitting going on at the end of the game.

▪ You used to go on at me about getting out.

be/run/go counter to sth

▪ A recipe would be counter to its nature.

▪ It ran counter to the ideas most Christians had held for well over a thousand years.

▪ It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.

▪ They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.

▪ This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.

▪ This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.

▪ While I did this, I was encouraging her to talk through opinions of her own that ran counter to these discussions.

blow/go hot and cold

▪ Paula was going hot and cold by now.

▪ She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.

▪ Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.

come/go along for the ride

▪ I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.

▪ But do members just go along for the ride?

▪ His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.

▪ I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.

▪ I went along for the ride.

▪ Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.

▪ Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.

▪ Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.

▪ The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.

come/go full circle

▪ After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.

▪ A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

▪ Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.

▪ In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.

▪ Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.

▪ So we have come full circle.

▪ The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.

▪ Thus the research has come full circle.

▪ Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.

come/go under the hammer

▪ A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.

▪ Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.

▪ As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.

▪ Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.

▪ In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.

▪ It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.

▪ Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.

▪ So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.

▪ The rest of his collection is going under the hammer.

▪ They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.

come/go with the territory

▪ I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.

▪ As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory.

▪ Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory.

▪ Death always went with the territory.

▪ Human rights abuses go with the territory.

▪ Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory.

▪ She just said she felt it went with the territory.

▪ Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.

▪ The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory.

come/go/get along

▪ Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along.

▪ I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.

▪ In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along.

▪ Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.

▪ She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.

▪ She wants to go along too.

▪ The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.

▪ Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?

come/go/turn full circle

▪ A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

▪ Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.

▪ Now the pattern has turned full circle.

▪ Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.

▪ The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.

▪ The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.

▪ Thus the research has come full circle.

▪ Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.

could go either way

▪ It could go either way, as we have seen in previous months of March.

▪ M., still could go either way.

▪ The latest opinion poll suggests the vote could go either way.

don't go mad

drop/go down like ninepins

▪ Men and horses went down like ninepins before them, in a tangle of waving limbs, flailing hooves and broken lances.

easy come, easy go

get/go into a huddle

▪ As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer.

▪ As with the highly misleading phrase Stavrogin's Confession, critics and commentators behave as if they had got into a huddle.

▪ The meeting was chaotic, but at the end Mr Williams went into a huddle with a group of hauliers.

▪ They had gone into a huddle, obviously discussing their captives.

get/go nowhere

▪ Flo has been looking for a job but has gotten nowhere.

▪ But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere.

▪ He's got nowhere to go but forward.

▪ He goes nowhere in public without enough jewelry to supply a cotillion.

▪ I ain't going nowhere near them.

▪ I submit those stats and I get nowhere.

▪ Indeed, the trading profit went nowhere in 2000.

▪ Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere.

▪ Still, the Raiders will go nowhere until they begin following the rules.

get/go/run through sth

go (right/clean) out of sb's mind

▪ She said she was going out of her mind in California.

go (to) bye-byes

go Dutch (with sb)

▪ It's good to go dutch on power.

go a long way towards doing sth

▪ And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.

▪ For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.

▪ Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.

▪ In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.

▪ Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.

▪ The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.

▪ This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.

▪ This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.

go about your business

▪ The street was filled with ordinary people going about their business.

▪ He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business, never using his influence to manipulate others.

▪ Normally it went about its business either on foot or in an arabeah, the horse-drawn cab distinctive to the city.

▪ Sara went about her business, more troubled than ever about Jenny's imminent arrival.

▪ The 49ers are counting on Deese to epitomize that professionalism as he goes about his business with Smith.

▪ They went about their business, expecting him to appear at any moment.

▪ While Deion Sanders received most of the pre-game ballyhoo, his bookend Brown went about his business with little or no fanfare.

▪ Yesterday, as the group of pickers went about their business, police said there had been no further incidents.

▪ You have to laugh about it and go about your business.

go against the flow

go ahead

▪ "Can I have the sports section?" "Yeah, go ahead, I've read it."

▪ "Can I watch TV?'' "Sure, go ahead.''

▪ "Do you mind if I use your phone?" "Not at all - go ahead."

▪ "Is it OK if I eat the last apple?" "Go right ahead."

▪ "Is it OK if I smoke?'' "Sure, go ahead.''

▪ I'll go ahead and start the coffee.

▪ If you want to take a shower, just go ahead and take one.

▪ Even if Elizabeth went ahead and told Father, it was not certain that she would escape.

▪ Factory owners tried to stop govt. from going ahead & passing Acts but could not stop them seeing.

▪ I dared him to go ahead and do it.

▪ If you decide not to go ahead, just return the Policy within 15 days.

▪ If you want to buy a flamboyant pair of trousers, go ahead!

▪ Look, so little is known about her, just go ahead and get all the research done now.

▪ Reviews instances in which the Agency's activities have complicated matters or deterred developers from going ahead.

▪ Sure, go ahead and buy a used car from Slipshod Acme car company.

go all the way (with sb)

▪ A lower court forgave the debt, but the case went all the way to the Supreme Court.

▪ But it was touch and go all the way.

▪ If you went all the way across the Lake of Dreams you'd end up in the Lake of Death.

▪ Imagine going all the way to Inverness for a pint of milk ... Maybe that was for the cat, too.

▪ She is very tough mentally and determined and should go all the way to a medal.

▪ The chair went all the way back, folded out, so his feet were out.

▪ The sun went all the way down and I was standing in the purple darkness.

go ape

▪ Joe went ape when he found out.

go apeshit

▪ Four Negro GIs went apeshit striking matches on sleek bottoms.

▪ Ricky would go apeshit if anything happened to Wayne.

go astray

▪ The form you mailed must have gone astray.

▪ The street is filled with teenagers who have gone astray.

▪ I enclose a copy in case the original has gone astray.

▪ It could be that fewer of those bright ideas will go astray.

▪ It wasn't too windy, but windy enough to cause the occasional shot to go astray.

▪ Perhaps the most famous example of a re-creation gone astray took place in July 1989.

▪ She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray.

▪ The problem is sometimes that parts go astray, which makes it impossible to reassemble the file.

▪ To stop Tootle from going astray, the townspeople get together and conceive ofa clever plan, in which they all participate.

▪ We should not be comforted by allowing ourselves to regard Noam Friedman et al. as disturbed individuals who have gone astray.

go awry

▪ Your best financial plans can sometimes go awry.

▪ But part of its appeal, too, is a description of many translations gone awry.

▪ If something goes awry, like a Cabinet revolt, the government falls and new elections are held.

▪ It solaced him to know that he had an alternate plan if things went awry.

▪ Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day, but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend.

▪ She had done her utmost to excite, please, soothe, serve; yet everything had gone awry.

▪ Sweet expectancy appeared on the young faces in the children's band and the music went awry.

▪ Their policies on devolution seemed to be going awry.

go ballistic

go bananas

▪ Dad will go bananas when he sees this.

▪ Roy's customers think the council has gone bananas.

▪ Victor will go bananas, and Rachel will think I got laid.

go bang

▪ I won't go banging on about the open fireplace again, but to my mind that was certainly one of them.

go beetroot

go belly up

▪ Tim's business went belly up in 1993.

▪ Cooke won a settlement so big that the label went belly up.

▪ Lehman Brothers eventually went belly up.

▪ Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.

go berserk

▪ She went berserk and began shouting at everybody on the platform.

▪ The guy just went totally berserk and started hitting me.

▪ When they tried to arrest him, he suddenly went berserk.

▪ But eight days after this fire went berserk, there are no serious injuries.

▪ But then Munter goes over the edge, sounding like a Weight Watchers leader gone berserk.

▪ Converse was commencing another glide when Smitty went berserk.

▪ He offered to show me, but Alain nearly went berserk and then we got interrupted.

▪ He wasn't proud of the ability to go berserk because it meant loss of control.

▪ No, I was a sort of insane ghetto personality who got off on the written word, and went berserk.

▪ On the table in the front of the room was a telephone, which rang whenever the bond market went berserk.

▪ She's probably lived such a repressed life she goes berserk when she comes out to the West Indies.

go blank

▪ I just went blank and couldn't remember his name for a minute.

▪ Suddenly the screen went blank.

▪ I remember standing there getting red in the face and my mind going blank.

▪ It was as if his mind had gone blank or had become a golden mind, as Larry's had.

▪ Mine start when I go blank.

▪ My mind went blank with grief and despair.

▪ The screen went blank, unlike his mind.

▪ We sat beside him and encouraged him when he stumbled or went blank.

▪ When she asked Karen a question, even though Karen knew the answer her mind immediately went blank.

▪ Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper?

go blue

▪ Celia came down holding the baby, who had gone blue and stopped breathing.

▪ Do not put the bandage on too tight or you may find your fingers or toes going blue through lack of circulation.

▪ I could have threatened to hold my breath until I went blue.

▪ Strictly speaking, yes, it would tend to go blue ever so slightly.

▪ The baby boy went blue after his lungs became blocked.

▪ You rolled around, went blue and your eyes shot up into your head.

go broke

▪ A lot of small businesses went broke during the recession.

▪ And once you have so many farmers going broke, the ripple effect starts.

▪ Bethlehem went broke a year later, but a reissue set appeared 20 years later.

▪ He could also go broke - last year, farm incomes fell by 25 percent.

▪ Mr Menem applied such nonsense in the state of La Rioja, where he is governor; it has gone broke.

▪ Ninety-nine out of a hundred wildcatters went broke or crazy or both and abandoned their last asteroid with the equipment in situ.

▪ Project the numbers forward and government simply goes broke.

▪ They are delightful students, but we take them because we'd go broke if we didn't.

▪ Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke.

go bust

▪ About 60,000 business go bust each year in the United States.

▪ Most of the steel factories around here went bust in the 1980s.

▪ The supermarket isn't there any more. They went bust ages ago.

▪ But when the Thatcher boom went bust Sugar's business declined with it - and so did Amstrad's market rating.

▪ Even when certain licensed dealers have survived, the firms in which they were making markets have gone bust.

▪ His haulage business went bust and he owes £120,000 on a semi in New Denham, Bucks, now worth only £80,000.

▪ I think I fancy a well-paid job with a firm that won't go bust.

▪ Last year they faced uncertainty over their jobs when the Lewis's group went bust and called in the receivers.

▪ Now the process has reached crisis point: the organization is about to go bust.

▪ Then it really went bust, flat, dead bust, in the l920s.

▪ When competitors pull out, get taken over or go bust, fares go up.

go by the board

▪ And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse, the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board.

▪ Health, education, transport and other welfare spending goes by the board.

▪ Meanwhile, there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life.

▪ Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes.

▪ Scientific batsmanship goes by the board.

▪ Their principles have gone by the board.

▪ We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.

▪ We used to play golf, but went by the board when he moved.

go by the rulebook

go cap in hand (to sb)

▪ Advertisers used to go to museums, cap in hand, to ask permission to use a painting for an advertisement.

go commando

go crazy

▪ I didn't need to go crazy.

▪ My boss told me to leave, and 1 went crazy.

▪ The Star Council had gone crazy.

▪ The world was going crazy and, or so it seemed, Trumptonshire would have none of it.

▪ They went crazy, making all that money.

▪ To have it happen here, see the fans go crazy.

▪ You go crazy with the frustration and throw a bad punch and take his counter in your mouth or solar plexus.

▪ You have to maintain a balance or else you go crazy.

go down a treat

▪ It seems to be going down a treat.

▪ It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.

go down a/this road

▪ They mustn't go down this road again, it could only lead to disaster.

go down like a lead balloon

go down the Swanee

go down the pan

▪ The Mimosa is going down the pan faster than Dynorod could.

go down the plughole

go down the tubes

▪ The who experiment could go down the tubes.

go downhill

▪ After he lost his job, things went downhill.

▪ I said I didn't like baseball, and the interview went downhill from then on.

▪ Moving in together was a mistake, and things rapidly went downhill.

▪ When things started to go downhill, Kyle began looking for another job.

▪ After that, things started to go downhill.

▪ Cruel observers may remark that he's been going downhill ever since.

▪ Life seems to have gone downhill since the younger one was born.

▪ Monta o accuses the city of deliberately forcing the neighborhood to go downhill, the better to justify a future land grab.

▪ The evening had gone downhill since she asked about the coat.

▪ The whole thing is going downhill.

▪ Things have been going downhill since the kitchen help moved into the classroom.

▪ You feel the situation is going downhill.

go easy on sb

▪ Go easy on Peter - he's having a hard time at school.

▪ After that, go easy on salty foods such as crisps, bacon, cheese and salted nuts.

▪ And go easy on the sugar, salt and alcohol.

▪ Fred must go easy on his eyes.

▪ He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.

▪ We can go easy on him with the questions, but I want Nate to be impressed.

▪ We went easy on Baker and gave him the benefit of the doubt.

go easy on/with sth

▪ Go easy on the cheese - it has a lot of fat.

▪ After that, go easy on salty foods such as crisps, bacon, cheese and salted nuts.

▪ And go easy on the sugar, salt and alcohol.

▪ Fred must go easy on his eyes.

▪ He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.

▪ We can go easy on him with the questions, but I want Nate to be impressed.

▪ We went easy on Baker and gave him the benefit of the doubt.

go for broke

▪ Jacobsen went for broke on the last nine holes and won the tournament.

▪ In games, I usually go for broke. 12.

▪ So he felt free to go for broke.

▪ So, Major may be going for broke by breaking with precedent.

▪ This is not a show you can skimp on, and thankfully director Damian Cruden goes for broke.

go for the jugular

▪ A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices.

▪ And not that many women really feel comfortable going for the jugular.

go forward to/into

▪ Finally she left her seat and went forward to accept the Lord, leaving her Bible on the seat.

▪ Lily went forward to the wings and looked at the set.

▪ Quietly she went forward to the edge of the trees.

▪ Rex must have gone forward to deal with the foresail.

▪ Smiling shyly, she went forward to meet them.

▪ Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib.

▪ When, later in the service, she went forward to accept the Lord, what did she think she was accepting?

go from bad to worse

▪ The rail service has gone from bad to worse since it was privatised.

▪ The schools have gone from bad to worse in this area.

▪ Things went from bad to worse, and soon the pair were barely talking to each other.

▪ As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.

▪ It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.

▪ Matters continued to go from bad to worse.

▪ Matters went from bad to worse.

▪ On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse.

▪ That they are going from bad to worse.

go from bad to worse

▪ As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.

▪ It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.

▪ Matters continued to go from bad to worse.

▪ Matters went from bad to worse.

▪ On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse.

▪ That they are going from bad to worse.

go from strength to strength

▪ As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength.

▪ But now they have gone, the story line has gone from strength to strength.

▪ On its own terms, meanwhile, the new philology went from strength to strength.

▪ Ride are just going from strength to strength - one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment.

▪ The railcoaches however, went from strength to strength and became the work-horses of the Blackpool system.

▪ We can't help but go from strength to strength.

▪ While the company goes from strength to strength, the union claims, its employees are losing out.

go funny

▪ And his eyes went funny just as he was about to change personalities.

▪ I tend to sit there going funny colours.

▪ My eyes go funny after a bit, so I look at summat else.

▪ Then came the road where her knees went funny.

go halves (on sth)

▪ Do you want to go halves on a pizza?

▪ He generously agrees to go halves on you.

▪ She'd promised to go halves with him if he got anywhere in his negotiations.

go halves (with sb)

go haywire

▪ My computer has gone haywire again.

▪ And consider buying the same set-up as a friend so you have some one to lean on when things go haywire.

▪ Everything would go haywire if he saw her.

▪ If something goes haywire, it should be fairly easy to isolate the offending software.

▪ Until recently geophysicists thought that at this low point the magnetic field would also go haywire.

▪ When compression software really goes haywire, you can lose everything on your hard disk.

▪ With khaki behind the counter, the prices went haywire.

go head to head with sb

▪ Jim finally went head to head with his boss.

go hog wild

go hot and cold

▪ Paula was going hot and cold by now.

▪ She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.

go hungry

▪ Families went hungry, lost nine months of income, and for what, really?

▪ Frankie had learned to prepare in advance for those days and nights when he might otherwise go hungry.

▪ It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.

▪ Many people had lost everything they owned in the floods and many were now going hungry, he said.

▪ Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry.

▪ No-one is allowed to go hungry.

▪ She has never gone hungry, suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.

▪ Without welfare benefits, many may become homeless, others will go hungry.

go hunting

▪ And there were many who wondered why Holy Trinity had to go hunting for causes so far from home.

▪ Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.

▪ Oh my, I think we're going hunting.

▪ Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries, he would go home first.

▪ Sumal, her sister, who was not at all beautiful, dressed like a man and loved to go hunting.

▪ The group members then went hunting for another buyer, finally persuading media giant Gannett Co. to buy their option.

▪ We hunted only a few times but by the end I knew I would never go hunting again.

go in (at) one ear and out (at) the other

▪ It goes in one ear and out the other.

go into overdrive/be in overdrive

go into reverse/put sth into reverse

go it alone

▪ After years of working for a big company, I decided to go it alone.

▪ Sayles hasn't regretted his decision to go it alone as a filmmaker.

▪ The response to our proposal was lukewarm, so we felt we had to go it alone.

▪ When it comes to parenthood, more and more women are deciding to go it alone.

▪ As much as he can, he tries to go it alone.

▪ But County Auctions, a big operation with centres at Wooler and Newcastle, was always likely to go it alone.

▪ Do not try to go it alone - everything you do will be enhanced by the company of another.

▪ He knew that each brought something important to the relationship, but that neither could go it alone.

▪ If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone.

▪ Many of them do not have the capital or a big enough infrastructure to go it alone, he said.

▪ No single community could go it alone.

▪ That was when Brian decided to go it alone, sourcing the units and adapting them himself.

go live

▪ Before you rush to subscribe, however, it's only the phone arm of the service that has gone live.

▪ Care management goes live in April 1993 but is still poorly rehearsed and its performance may yet disappoint.

▪ On 12 January the Midland electrification between Luton and Bedford went live in preparation for driver-only training. 1982.

▪ The new site was due to go live at the end of June and promised new personalisation features.

▪ The new system went live earlier this year.

▪ The service, CallNet0800, goes live on 1 November.

▪ Undeterred, Gandhi declared he would go live in a hut in the untouchable quarter.

▪ We went live on air by telephone for about ten minutes, at about 8.25 am.

go loopy

go mental

▪ Back home, the missus is going mental and your dinner's in the dustbin.

▪ We're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental.

go native

▪ Austen has been living in Papua New Guinea so long he's gone native.

▪ There would be no going native at Zhanjiang.

go nuts

▪ But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen.

▪ Every time Greene did something he went nuts, throwing his body around the field like a one-man Mardi Gras.

▪ It was pure magic and Philadelphia fans went nuts.

▪ Most of the walls are really light panels, so we don't go nuts from the dark.

▪ My classmate and I thought he had gone nuts.

▪ So don't go nuts - use those leftovers in the following recipes.

▪ The fans go nuts, stomping so loudly that they drown out the announcer.

▪ What if this man of yours just went nuts for no reason at all?

go off at a tangent

▪ As for going off at tangents, my dear, I do it myself, hormone balance not withstanding.

▪ Loretta's mind went off at a tangent.

go off at the deep end

go off half cocked

go off the boil

▪ Even extortion has gone off the boil.

▪ I knew as soon as I wrote it down I'd go off the boil.

▪ Now it appears to have gone off the boil.

▪ The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer.

▪ We're letting the kettle go off the boil.

go off the rails

▪ But it was the news pages that had really gone off the rails.

▪ Has something gone off the rails here?

▪ Things started to go off the rails, however, with the Fiat Multipla.

go on forever

▪ The train just seemed to go on forever.

go on the block

go on the offensive

▪ But before Adamowski could get his campaign under way, Daley threw him off balance by going on the offensive.

▪ Hastily revising his plans for my career, he settled us into our Cape Cod retreat and went on the offensive.

▪ If she could find somewhere dry, she would be able to go on the offensive.

▪ So she did not need to go on the offensive and was not required to fight.

▪ Temperamentally unsuited for compromise, Tatum went on the offensive.

▪ When the Government hinted darkly about a privacy bill in the wake of the Mellor affair, MacKenzie went on the offensive.

go one better (than sb)

▪ Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.

▪ But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.

▪ Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.

▪ Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.

▪ Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.

▪ She goes one better than last year.

▪ The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.

▪ They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.

go out (of) the window

▪ Also by definition, of course, the conventional measures of company valuation went out of the window.

▪ But that system has long since gone out the window.

▪ Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window.

▪ Douglas went out the window when they turned on him.

▪ If they are barred from this, cost control could go out of the window.

▪ Once they sniffed victory caution went out of the window.

▪ Regular-season stuff goes out the window.

▪ When it hit, tradition went out the window, taking with it a great many careers.

go out of your mind

▪ I'm with the kids all day, and I'm starting to feel like I'm losing my mind.

▪ If I have to wait in one more line, I'm going to go out of my mind.

▪ She said she was going out of her mind in California.

go out of your way to do sth

▪ Jennifer knew what a difficult time I was having, and went out of her way to be friendly.

▪ They went out of their way to make me feel welcome.

▪ When Annie arrived, Harriman went out of his way to make life pleasant for her.

▪ And the recording industry is going out of its way to help.

▪ How to be compassionate to their pain and go out of their way to help them?

▪ Neither do they go out of their way to look for targets, human or otherwise.

▪ So empty, in fact, that the United States seemed to go out of its way to insult Ismail.

▪ This is the second time to-night she has gone out of her way to be sensitive to Oregon.

▪ To register his annoyance, he seemed to go out of his way to ignore us.

▪ We are going out of our way to help him with it.

go over sb's head

▪ The more emotional scenes go right over the kids' heads.

▪ Are we going to get Blagg or do we go over your head?

▪ Could he go over the heads of Congress and get the country behind him?

▪ He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors.

▪ His enormous arm went over Rory's head, the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.

▪ Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head.

▪ They worried that the experienced subordinate would go over their head and gain support from their superiors.

go overboard

▪ Don't you think you went a little overboard on the decorations?

▪ Although Levin sometimes goes overboard with jokes, his breezy, slightly irreverent tone is a welcome one.

▪ I decided to go overboard with processors and connected three digital multi-effects units and a mono delay.

▪ It was feared he'd gone overboard and air and sea search was launched.

▪ My problem is, I have a tendency to go overboard with compliments.

▪ Then more cans of the gas, so carefully loaded the day before, went overboard.

▪ They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard.

▪ You are demonstrating to them how to recognize, name and communicate their feelings without going overboard.

go pear-shaped

▪ Meg plays Alice, a cheerful hippy in the minutes before everything goes pear-shaped.

go phut

▪ I tried to do a tree too but the shaving foam went phut and I realized I'd used it all up.

go postal

go potty

▪ Do you have to go potty?

go public

▪ Several biotech companies went public this year.

▪ The chairman didn't want to go public with the information.

▪ After going public at 28, Netscape closed the year at 139.

▪ In most cases, though, prices head south as soon as they've gone public.

▪ In the last three months of 1990, the Tribune Company recorded its first quarterly loss since going public in 1983.

▪ Most had by then gone public, but still controlled their firms.

▪ One of the changes was establishing a partnership committee to evaluate whether to go public.

▪ Police went public after police cars were rammed and officers injured.

▪ The stock, accounting for splits since the firm went public in 1986, has appreciated by 340 percent.

▪ What better time is there to go public?

go sb's way

go short (of sth)

▪ But Jude is used to going short of beauty sleep-although it doesn't show.

▪ Debbie's husband would have cared if he had gone short, oh yes.

▪ More of the world-beating copies are on sale today in areas that went short.

▪ Since these are fairly cheap to buy and easy to prepare, the elderly rarely go short of them.

▪ So whether you're visiting Perth or Penzance, you need never go short of cash.

▪ That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days.

▪ The stroke went short and choppy.

▪ You haven't gone short of food, that's obvious.

go so far/as far as to do sth

go some way towards doing sth

▪ But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite.

▪ Funding for public works, including community-based arts projects, went some way towards alleviating mass unemployment.

▪ However, the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them.

▪ It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.

▪ Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness.

▪ The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly.

▪ This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease.

▪ Will he go some way towards reviewing the process?

go south

▪ After four years, their relationship began to go south.

▪ Arthur chose Brewyn, a man he could be certain of, then went south to Caerleon well content.

▪ But first he wanted to go south.

▪ His playing time evaporated until just before the break and his numbers also went south.

▪ I must get to the station, go south again.

▪ If so, go south about three miles to Bunker Hill Road.

▪ Motorola stock has been going south since it reached a record 82 1 / 2 last Sept. 29.

▪ The Marauders going south to play football?

go spare

▪ I often ring at this time of the night for a chat, it helps to stop me from going spare.

▪ Mrs Mangle would be mortified, Harold horrified ... and Scott would go spare.

▪ One spare nut on a table may not seem much of an asset, but 10,000 nuts going spare are a liability.

▪ So 10,000 posters are going spare, and the Tories are laughing.

go stag

go steady (with sb)

▪ I could really go for him in a big way, but he's going steady with the staff nurse on Rainbow.

▪ If you can't, it's as well you're not going steady.

▪ Maybe they don't talk about going steady any more, he thought.

▪ Somehow, the mention of marriage has strained even the sweet pleasure we found in going steady.

▪ Tell her you needed time with the idea of going steady, and you need time with this.

go stellar

go straight

▪ He's been going straight for about six months now.

▪ Tony's been trying to go straight for about six months.

▪ You can't expect these people to go straight when no one's ever going to give them a job.

▪ He has been born into this world and gone straight to hell.

▪ He went straight up to Oxford Street and bought a tracksuit.

▪ It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital, and they went straight to Jack's barn.

▪ Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole.

▪ Left to our own devices, we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes.

▪ When she came back she avoided his look and went straight to a small table next to the stove.

go swimmingly

▪ Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before.

▪ Things were going swimmingly, what with remarkably honest plumbers, electricians and carpenters fixing up my new home.

go the (full) distance

▪ Along the way pilots take photographs of certain landmarks to prove they've gone the distance.

▪ But since the State is unwilling to go the distance alone, rest assured his answer will be no.

▪ Either can go the distance, but one is ever-so-much more delightful.

▪ For those who went the distance it was time to reflect on their achievement.

▪ Physically the Decimax should go the distance, too.

▪ Steve Kemp and I became involved in a marathon match which went the full distance.

▪ Together, they go the distance.

go the extra mile

▪ The President vowed to go the extra mile for peace in the region.

▪ All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances.

▪ And it diminishes the employees' desire to go the extra mile when supervisors need them to.

go the way of all flesh

go the whole hog

▪ We decided to go whole hog and stay at the Hilton.

▪ And when you've claimed that much land, why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well.

▪ Are they about kissing, petting or going the whole hog, as one might say?

▪ Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this.

▪ He reckoned now he was in, he might as well go the whole hog.

▪ Mortified by the twist in his sobriety, George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society.

▪ Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages.

▪ The Siemens display goes the whole hog.

▪ You could hire taxis, or go the whole hog and hire a chauffeur-driven car for the day.

go the whole hog

▪ And when you've claimed that much land, why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well.

▪ Are they about kissing, petting or going the whole hog, as one might say?

▪ Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this.

▪ He reckoned now he was in, he might as well go the whole hog.

▪ Mortified by the twist in his sobriety, George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society.

▪ Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages.

▪ The Siemens display goes the whole hog.

▪ You could hire taxis, or go the whole hog and hire a chauffeur-driven car for the day.

go through fire (and water) (for sb)

▪ I would have gone through fire for Peter Docherty.

go through the floor

▪ In the past few years, stock prices have gone through the floor.

▪ Last year, sales went through the floor.

go through the mill

▪ Busiack has been through the mill with these federal investigators.

▪ Part of the Council's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation.

▪ We went through the mill together, Franklin.

go through the motions (of doing sth)

▪ But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works.

▪ Everybody said the right thing; everybody went through the motions the way they should.

▪ Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.

▪ The authorities occasionally go through the motions of clamping down.

▪ To Harry, Jack looked like a man going through the motions.

▪ Too many students are going through the motions without any significant engagement in learning.

▪ We just give up and go through the motions and we let our negativity harden inside us.

▪ You can go through the motions.

go through the roof

▪ Following news of increased profits, the company's share price went through the roof.

▪ Put that back before Dad sees you and hits the roof!

▪ Sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses went through the roof after Tom Cruise wore them in 'Risky Business'.

▪ And the price is going through the roof.

▪ He could predict business to go through the roof.

▪ Inflation had accelerated and commodity prices had gone through the roof.

▪ No wonder inflation is going through the roof and our environment ends up choked with litter.

▪ Sales of those products went through the roof.

▪ The second day went through the roof with a whopping 573,604.

▪ They criticise the poll tax, but when they were in office the rates went through the roof.

go through the wringer

▪ His ex-wife really put Barry through the wringer.

▪ Before being reunited with his 14-year-old wife and baby, Pedro Sotelo went through the wringer Thursday.

go through your paces

▪ At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense.

▪ Most of the students are satisfied eating and watching Reed go through her paces, with very few questions asked.

▪ Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.

▪ The crowd at Colvin Run Mill watched raptly as the nine black company members and their white commander went through their paces.

go through/over sth with a fine-tooth comb

go to earth

▪ All the village had gone to earth.

▪ He'd go to earth and stay there till dark.

▪ Not much doubt he slipped in there and went to earth in the shed, for some purpose of his own.

go to ground

▪ After flying into a military airport in a private jet, he went to ground.

▪ Also they are very severe on the second man going to ground.

▪ I'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence.

▪ Let any crook try to find me, I said to myself, when I go to ground in Uulaa-la.

▪ The dead man's brother has gone to ground.

go to hell and back

go to hell in a handbasket

▪ The education system in this state has gone to hell in a handbasket.

go to hell!

▪ Don't answer the phone - he can go to hell!

go to law

▪ At the time, she was intending to go to law school with a view to taking over her father's law firm.

▪ I might go to law school next year, and I wanted to find out if I liked it.

▪ Indeed, they are going to law school, too.

▪ Merrill plans to work for a year, perhaps abroad, and then go to law school.

▪ So the museum has gone to law to get the pictures back.

▪ So we've been left with no other avenue but to go to law.

▪ Well, what else could I do with a history and humanities interest outside of teach or go to law school?

▪ When I go to law schools to speak, I recognize them immediately.

go to pieces

▪ I was so nervous in my driving test I just went to pieces.

▪ Keeping busy was the only thing that kept her from going to pieces during the divorce.

▪ When they lost the family business, Liz went to pieces.

▪ He was going to pieces inside, just as Lorton intended, and he didn't like it.

▪ I almost went to pieces in that room.

▪ It seems he goes to pieces in a crisis, then.

▪ That's perhaps why things began to go to pieces when the boy was born.

▪ The ship broke in half, tumbled over the precipice, and went to pieces.

▪ With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become re-sorts of vice and disease.

go to pot

▪ My God, they've really let the house go to pot.

▪ Birth then becomes difficult and painful and, of course, the economics of the whole operation goes to pot.

▪ Her relationship with the boy has gone to pot lately.

▪ Many people's good intentions go to pot as Ian Cocking does the work virtually single handed.

▪ Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot.

▪ The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle's started purchasing from outside suppliers.

▪ There was another moneymaking scheme gone to pot.

▪ This whole village has gone to pots.

go to press

▪ The May issue was ready to go to press when the magazine closed down.

▪ Although correct at the time of going to press, the programme is subject to amendment.

▪ As we went to press more than 200,000 copies had already been sold.

▪ At the time this book was going to press, I had not yet been able to undertake further investigations.

▪ Ed - Sorry the photos were not available at time of going to press due to Christmas printing deadlines.

▪ However, as we went to press they were still sorting out what stays and what goes.

▪ Prices correct at time of going to press.

▪ The only way he could improve its impact was to wait for exactly the right moment to go to press.

go to rack and ruin

▪ He's let his father's old house go to rack and ruin.

▪ It seems that the government is prepared to let all our hospitals and schools go to rack and ruin.

▪ The old farmhouse had gone to rack and ruin.

▪ First they let the house go to rack and ruin, then the garden; now they were sheltering hippies.

▪ Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin.

go to sb's head

▪ Dave really let his promotion go to his head.

▪ The wine went straight to my head.

▪ A rush of blood went to Rosheen's head as the infection he had implanted did its work.

▪ At ten o'clock they went to the tunnel head.

▪ He went to the head in the middle of the night to study the fluid, a dreadful yellowish drip.

▪ I think your Nobel Prize has gone to your head.

▪ Production went to his head and thrilled his sleepless nerves like liquor or women on a Saturday night.

▪ She was a looker, that one, and I guess it went to her head.

▪ They were floundering chest-deep, and Riven went to Madra's head, helping to hold it above the water.

go to sleep

▪ Are you two going to stop talking and go to sleep?

▪ Can you stop leaning on me please? My arm's gone to sleep.

▪ He lay on the sofa and pretended to go to sleep.

▪ I looked over at Dave, but he had gone to sleep.

▪ If I wake up in the night, it takes me ages to go back to sleep.

▪ Every time I go to sleep I don't know what's gon na happen.

▪ He went to sleep as he stood there, clutching his glass, his forehead resting on the windowpane.

▪ I did just as he suggested, and put the note in his mailbox that night, and went to sleep.

▪ I read and went to sleep.

▪ Oh, you did not go to sleep as directed, at eight?

▪ The man stepped back into the centre of the circle, and seemed almost to go to sleep.

▪ They did not expect to get home, says the poet; still, they went to sleep.

▪ You go upstairs and read Campbell a story before she goes to sleep.

go to some/great/any lengths (to do sth)

▪ Both want to steal the show and they are going to great lengths to do it.

▪ Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.

▪ Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.

▪ George Bush went to great lengths to keep out of his way on the campaign trail.

▪ The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery.

▪ When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.

▪ Who knows whether Oppenheimer went to any lengths to find anyone who had anything good to say about Stewart.

▪ Yet Phillips climbed the wall anyway, went to great lengths to hurt his ex-girlfriend.

go to the bad

go to the country

▪ And yet Callaghan very nearly did go to the country late in 1978.

▪ Attlee went to the country over the issue and lost the general election of October 1951.

▪ I've had my orders. l m going to the country for a while, to merry Mytchett Place.

▪ Individuals possess conveyances to go to the country.

▪ So, anyway, I went to the country.

▪ So, it should strike while the iron is hot and go to the country as soon as possible.

go to the devil!

go to the ends of the earth

▪ Brad would go to the ends of the earth to make his wife happy.

go to the mat (for sb/sth)

go to the polls

▪ The people of Houston will go to the polls next week to elect a new mayor.

▪ We're trying to encourage young people to go to the polls.

▪ With only two days left before France goes to the polls, all parties are campaigning hard.

▪ A week after that, three big Midwestern states hold primaries, and on March 26, Californians go to the polls.

▪ As they go to the polls the voters know what package of compromises they are voting for.

▪ If so, on past form only a third of the electorate will bother to go to the polls.

▪ In June 1983, Margaret Thatcher went to the polls for the second time.

▪ Next week, they go to the polls in a presidential election that should indicate where their sympathies lie.

▪ Republican voters will go to the polls for four hours to select the first batch of delegates of the presidential primary season.

▪ So people go to the polls convinced their only choice is the lesser of two evils.

▪ This Tuesday, August 5, voters will go to the polls to accept or reject the proposed charter.

go to the toilet

▪ Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own.

▪ I couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet and they always came and changed me.

▪ I really needed to go to the toilet, but that meant walking past them on to the other side of the hall.

▪ Over the next day and a half she only left the room twice to go to the toilet.

▪ The old man got up to go to the toilet again.

▪ Then, next time you go to the toilet, try this stop test half way through emptying your bladder.

go to the wall

▪ He's not a candidate that Democrats would go to the wall for.

▪ High interest rates will force many businesses to go to the wall.

▪ Over 300 small firms have gone to the wall in the past year.

▪ In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.

▪ It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall.

▪ Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination.

▪ Small livestock farmers have gone to the wall in their thousands.

▪ Some farmers did go to the wall, but far fewer than predicted.

▪ The trades unionist suspects that in competitive capitalism the weak go to the wall.

▪ Those who could stand the pace flourished; those who could not went to the wall.

go to town (on sth)

▪ Sandy went to town on the displays.

▪ Bénéteau went to town in their usual impressive way; it is, after all, their home patch.

▪ Bury that snout in Haagen-Dasz and go to town!

▪ In the United States of the early 1940s, women still donned hats and gloves to go to town.

▪ Over another cup of coffee we made plans to go to town.

▪ This month he goes to town on forms.

▪ When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her.

▪ Windows give you a chance to go to town.

go to waste

▪ Don't let all this food go to waste.

▪ If no one else wants this, I'll eat it -- I hate to see good food go to waste.

▪ Local produce often goes to waste because people prefer to buy imported food.

▪ We can't let all our hard work go to waste.

▪ And all that effort went to waste.

▪ Every part of the animal was used and nothing went to waste.

▪ However, they needn't go to waste.

▪ I hate to see them go to waste.

▪ I still had tickets to use for this season, and now those will just go to waste.

▪ Oh, no, she resolved, not twice; she wasn't going to waste another year of her life!

▪ She wasn't going to waste her strength.

▪ Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.

go too far

▪ Investors are concerned that real estate inflation has gone too far.

▪ The court ruled that the police went too far when they handcuffed Rooney to a chair.

▪ Has he gone too far out of bounds to get back on course?

▪ I can only hope I am proved wrong: things have gone too far to turn back the tide.

▪ She would make sure she did not go too far, or too soon.

▪ Surely a barber didn't hold his client in this way, was he perhaps going too far?

▪ Their elders in Linea 13 try to keep them from going too far.

▪ They never went too far out.

▪ They want to go too far.

▪ We have already gone too far.

go underground

▪ Denkins went underground to escape police.

▪ A few days later, Valenzuela went underground.

▪ But some of the activity has gone underground.

▪ Delvalle went underground but continued to be recognized by the United States.

▪ Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist.

▪ If company policies are too stringent or punitive, couples simply go underground.

▪ Instead of changing its policies, however, the government went underground.

▪ Like the Sleepers of Ephesus, ideas go underground for a few centuries to re-emerge when times are more propitious.

▪ The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground.

go unpunished

▪ Before 1870, a husband could legally go unpunished for beating his wife.

▪ Guards involved in drug deals went unpunished.

▪ Hate crimes will not be tolerated and will not go unpunished.

▪ At this point in development, children typically believe that a lie is wrong even if it goes unpunished.

▪ But no good deed goes unpunished in noire crime stories.

▪ In Port-au-Prince there are fears that Dominique's murder, like the deaths of so many others, will go unpunished.

▪ It looked a harsh decision, especially when the referee allowed late tackles to go unpunished.

▪ Middlesex have twice had to carpet Ramprakash this season after astonishing flare-ups and another incident went unpunished.

▪ Numerous violations of constitutional rights went unpunished during the thirties.

▪ Of course, when it comes to oligarchies and bureaucracies, no good deed goes unpunished.

▪ Your pride won't go unpunished.

go up in flames/burst into flames

go up in smoke

▪ After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke.

▪ Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.

▪ For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke.

▪ If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke?

▪ Its mosque went up in smoke.

▪ Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke, outraged many.

▪ That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.

▪ Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke.

go up/come down in the world

go walkabout

▪ I thought I'd just go walkabout and see what I can dig up.

▪ Our man's gone walkabout for reasons of his own.

▪ Prunella was right - why the fuss just because Blythe had gone walkabout?

▪ You know that when a black fella dies the whole family moves out of the house and goes walkabout.

go west

▪ But Helper had gone West in the decade before the Civil War.

▪ But she was quiet and respectful, and she was eager to go West.

▪ It goes west along the river Humber before passing north around the western edge of the Yorkshire Wolds.

▪ Jack went west for a holiday in the summer of 1954 while he contemplated his future.

▪ The full quota of how many and whose scripts went west in this rethink will probably never be known.

▪ William did not go West on an existential errand; the end of his journey was known.

go wild

▪ The stock market went wild today.

▪ When Jordan's picture flashed on the screen, the crowd went wild.

▪ Apparently Maggie is going wild trying to find out who is responsible for seasonal changes.

▪ But the flashing lights pass straight through, on to some real emergency, and the crowd goes wild.

▪ No, they wouldn't: they'd go wild.

▪ Soon-Yi told friends that Mia went wild after finding nude photos of her in film-maker Allen's Manhattan apartment.

▪ Southampton went wild when the Friendship came into view.

▪ The borough of Brooklyn went wild, turning into one long block party.

▪ Use the traditional pink and white marshmallows or go wild with lots of assorted shapes and colours.

▪ Well, by that time it was going on the screen, and then the markets went wild.

go with a swing

▪ In the evening, after the first stiffness wore off and charades were introduced, the party went with a swing.

▪ Now he was in an excellent mood and the party began to go with a swing.

go with the flow

▪ If you want to stay sane, just go with the flow.

▪ Chretien is an opportunist who goes with the flow.

▪ Here she is pushed and pulled, directed and redirected, forced to go with the flow of the mob.

▪ In high school, I went with the flow.

▪ It feels like freedom: I can go with the flow.

▪ Most of them just go with the flow, ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman.

▪ Relax - and go with the flow.

▪ Then allow yourself to be carried gently downstream, going with the flow.

▪ Whereas I seek to go with the flow.

go wrong

▪ As far the contract was concerned, I don't know where I went wrong.

▪ Check your work again and see if you can spot where you went wrong.

▪ If you follow the easy step-by-step instructions, you really can't go wrong.

▪ It was soon after the birth of their first child that their relationship started to go wrong.

▪ Only the two of you know what went wrong.

▪ The experiment went wrong when the chemicals combined to form a poisonous gas.

▪ The rescue attempt went badly wrong when the building collapsed.

▪ But it all went wrong when, some 15 years ago, he flunked math and didn't get into college.

▪ If not, what went wrong?

▪ In case anything went wrong, I was prepared to make a dash for Armstrong.

▪ It is not that juries occasionally go wrong.

▪ It was obvious that much could go wrong.

▪ John Hill's son says he's not been given the full facts about what went wrong.

▪ Research shows that many injured patients simply want to find out what went wrong.

go your own way

▪ After that if you want to be organised, you can be - or alternatively you can go your own way.

▪ But enough to allow you to go your own way.

▪ I want to go my own way, alone.

▪ If Cultural Studies goes its own way, what happens to what is left?

▪ Or, of course, you can go your own way.

▪ Speech goes its own way, and speakers drift farther than ever from a literary standard.

▪ The herd ad is intended to show that the company goes its own way in investing.

▪ The pairs of glassy eyes no longer corresponded, in death they broke ranks, each distended eye gone its own way.

go your separate ways

▪ After this they go their separate ways.

▪ He says that they more or less go their separate ways, Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.

▪ In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.

▪ Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.

▪ Or would they go their separate ways, each ruling an independent principality?

▪ She takes it up, the partners disengage and go their separate ways.

▪ They were too readily allowed to go their separate ways.

▪ We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards.

go/be beyond (all) reason

▪ Their demands go beyond all reason.

▪ But by this time Maidstone was beyond all reason.

▪ He is beyond reason, Diniz.

▪ It was beyond all reason that Hal, who had performed flawlessly for so long, should suddenly turn assassin.

▪ Their condition is beyond reason, but it is certainly not, as they believe, beyond cure.

go/be out like a light

▪ She was out like a light, as soon as we put her in bed.

▪ A minute later he went out like a light.

▪ Either it was the brandy or it was the heat, but she went out like a light.

▪ I went out like a light.

▪ Something hit me on the back of the head, here, and I went out like a light.

go/be out of use

▪ The guns are out of use and that is what matters.

go/come along

▪ A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.

▪ Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.

▪ If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along.

▪ Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.

▪ Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.

▪ So I agreed to go along.

▪ The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.

▪ Until Green Bay came along, either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.

go/come/be down to the wire

▪ We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire.

▪ In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.

▪ It is down to the wire.

go/get/be beyond a joke

▪ The condition of Tam's leather jacket had got beyond a joke.

go/move downmarket

▪ The Opera House specialised in drama for nine years - and then went downmarket.

go/run around in circles

▪ We've got to solve the problem instead of running around in circles, writing letters that never get answered.

▪ I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.

▪ She jumps up and down and runs around in circles.

▪ That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.

go/run like clockwork

▪ A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.

▪ And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork.

▪ Sometimes it ran like clockwork, sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.

▪ Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork.

▪ Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork.

go/run to seed

▪ And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly.

▪ At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed.

▪ Formerly owned by Arthur Siegel, it had since gone to seed.

▪ Mark knows he has allowed himself to go to seed a bit.

▪ She looked middle-aged, overdressed, a show-girl gone to seed.

▪ The rest of the College, like the theatre, seems in Paul Pry's day to have run to seed.

▪ Their skin was as smooth as warm water, their hair as soft as a dandelion crown gone to seed.

go/run/flash etc through sb's mind

▪ I began to wonder what might be going through her mind.

▪ Over and over it ran through his mind.

▪ Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind.

▪ The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.

▪ The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.

▪ The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.

▪ This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds.

▪ Who lived there and what was going through their minds?

go/turn over sth in your mind

go/walk down the aisle

▪ As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles.

▪ He wanted to walk down the aisle with you and give you away to your young man.

▪ Her mouth turned up at the corners, Mavis walked down the aisle with Walter.

▪ Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle.

▪ Resplendent in red, she walks down the aisle on the arm of the Rev.

▪ The wedding was off, because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit!

▪ They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle, pointing their guns at the passengers.

▪ Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.

gone for a burton

hard going

▪ Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going.

▪ But getting to be one of these fashionable high-flying image makers with a top salary is hard going.

▪ I don't mind it, but it's pretty hard going to sleep with this banging going on.

▪ Much of it was hard going, especially in the early parts.

▪ Robbie's sandals were low-heeled, but even so she found the pace hard going.

have a good thing going

▪ They've got a good thing going with that little business of theirs.

have a lot going for you

▪ With her brains and good looks, she certainly has a lot going for her.

▪ Human travel agents, paper guidebooks and newspaper ads still have a lot going for them.

have everything going for you

▪ Barry had everything going for him -- charm, looks, intelligence, but still he was unemployed.

▪ Dan seemed to have everything going for him in college.

▪ She was bright and pretty and had everything going for her.

▪ It seems to have everything going for it.

▪ The events have everything going for them.

heavy going

▪ Although she usually got on well with children, she found Hilary heavy going.

▪ Eoin Young's Diary is heavy going.

▪ He reports that a trip to Catterick Camp to set up rope ladders on the assault course was heavy going.

▪ Like the writing of all books there are times of great enthusiasm, of heavy going and quite often real blockage.

▪ Mwangaza was dull and heavy going.

▪ Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky's Sonata, which is distinctly heavy going.

▪ The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity.

▪ The resulting interview was heavy going for both of them.

heavy going

▪ Although she usually got on well with children, she found Hilary heavy going.

▪ Eoin Young's Diary is heavy going.

▪ He reports that a trip to Catterick Camp to set up rope ladders on the assault course was heavy going.

▪ Like the writing of all books there are times of great enthusiasm, of heavy going and quite often real blockage.

▪ Mwangaza was dull and heavy going.

▪ Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky's Sonata, which is distinctly heavy going.

▪ The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity.

▪ The resulting interview was heavy going for both of them.

here goes!

here we go

▪ "I still don't see why you blame me!" "Oh great, here we go again."

▪ Let's do that again. Ready? Here we go.

▪ And now, here we go again with the Gulf crisis.

▪ Most of us were peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.

▪ Oh no, I thought, here we go.

▪ One two three four, here we go.

▪ Ronald Reagan fixed that, but here we go again.

▪ So, again, here we go.

here we go again

▪ "You've been drinking again, haven't you!" "Oh God, here we go again."

▪ And now, here we go again with the Gulf crisis.

▪ Most of us were peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.

▪ Ronald Reagan fixed that, but here we go again.

▪ You see, here we go again.

here you are/here you go

it's all go

▪ It's all go around here this morning. Ten new orders, all marked "URGENT'.

▪ Yes, it's all go on the rumour exchange and let me stress that these are but a few of the juiciest.

jump/go through hoops

▪ We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.

▪ He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops.

life goes on

▪ For them, life goes on.

▪ He knows that life goes on.

▪ In other words, life goes on.

▪ It ensures that life goes on.

▪ The personal construction of life goes on, however much undergirded by chemotherapeutic assistance.

▪ To be sure, life goes on.

▪ We all mourn their passing, but life goes on without them.

▪ While you were there you had a ball, and then life goes on.

like it's going out of fashion

▪ She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.

not be going anywhere

not go a bundle on sth/sb

not go far

▪ A dollar doesn't go very far these days.

▪ This pizza won't go far if everyone wants some.

▪ But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.

▪ In general, though, the managers felt the training did not go far enough.

▪ Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.

▪ The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union.

▪ The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.

▪ The privatisations also help, even if they do not go far enough.

▪ The symposium also featured a couple of members of Congress who believe the farm reforms did not go far enough.

▪ They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long, moaning howl.

on your mark(s), get set, go!

raring to go

▪ Carlos was raring to go soon after leaving the hospital.

▪ All cut up but raring to go.

▪ At least one other investment group was raring to go.

▪ Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.

▪ I've kept myself fit and I was raring to go.

▪ July 24, Lake Condoriri Day 2 and we are raring to go, working on yesterday's high.

▪ Lucy had been approached by an international humanist organisation, there was funding, and Lucy was raring to go.

▪ There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours, awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one.

▪ We arrived as keen as a couple of puppies out for their first walkies, full of fun and raring to go!

ready, steady, go!

run/go aground

▪ More than 72,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the estuary after the tanker ran aground in 1996.

▪ The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground.

▪ The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.

▪ The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.

▪ The prosecution's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground.

▪ Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.

run/go deep

▪ But the main problem goes deeper and will take longer to solve.

▪ Maude, on the other hand, had gone deep into the pluperfect, eleven generations of it.

▪ So did it go deeper than that?

▪ The debt goes deeper than money.

▪ The play goes deep and inspires all sorts of questions.

▪ The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.

▪ They can play at being still waters that run deep.

run/go dry

▪ The reservoir ran dry during the drought.

▪ Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry.

▪ If the trend continues, he said, the springs will go dry.

▪ If the valve has jammed shut, causing the feed-and-expansion tank to run dry, again turn off the water supply.

▪ Laura McCaffrey went dry slope skiing at Calshot Activities Centre,.

▪ Stock tanks normally brimming with water have gone dry.

▪ The rivers, too, are beginning to run dry.

▪ Time allowed 00:06 Read in studio A soft drinks company says its could run dry if it doesn't get enough elderflowers.

▪ With this agreement, our families are for ever linked, even if the rivers run dry and the oceans become deserts.

run/go hell for leather

run/go/drive etc like the clappers

▪ Little legs going like the clappers.

▪ Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.

sb will not go near sb/sth

sb will/would/should etc go far

▪ A man of his abilities should go far in the Party.

▪ And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.

▪ Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far.

▪ Her decisions would go far toward shaping the postwar world.

▪ It remains to be seen whether such measures will go far to avoid a repetition of the basic abuses, however.

▪ She'd been sure her daughter would go far.

▪ This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.

▪ Whether the stadium logs another round of lease-backed debt will go far in determining the fate of other major capital-improvement projects here.

sb's heart goes out to sb

▪ My heart goes out to them.

▪ You poor little dear - my heart goes out to you, waiting all this time.

sb's mind goes blank

sth must not go any further

sth will go down in history

▪ 1989 will go down in history as the year in which Stalinist Communism ended.

▪ This Minister will go down in history as the Minister who killed off small shops in Britain.

sth would not come/go amiss

▪ A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss.

▪ A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss.

▪ A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss. --------------------.

▪ A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.

▪ Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss.

▪ An apology wouldn't go amiss.

▪ In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.

▪ This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss.

take/go to (great) pains to do sth

▪ However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.

▪ Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing: that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true.

that's (just) the way sth/sb is/that's (just) the way sth goes

▪ And that's the way he is.

▪ And that's the way it is again this year - everybody is happy with what I am doing.

▪ But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.

▪ Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that's the way it is.

▪ For that's the way it is for the talented twosome.

▪ He's always been a bit on his dignity, I suppose, but that's the way he is.

▪ In the end Capirossi had to do the winning himself and that's the way 1991 is going to be.

▪ The money we got to spend - well, that's the way it is.

the balloon goes up

▪ We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.

the biggest/best/nicest etc sth going

▪ A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore.

▪ Are the best bargains going to petrol buyers?

▪ But in those years, they were always the team with the best record going into the playoffs.

▪ Its got to be the best ticket office going.

▪ Perhaps the biggest thing going was the harp played by JoAnn Turovsky, sounding positively, well, huge.

▪ There was a wide range of scores with the best individual score going to George McCallum of Douglas Reyburn with 37 points.

▪ This, so I was led to believe, was the best it was going to get.

▪ What is the best way of going forward? - Ideas from within I hear you say!

the clocks go back/forward

▪ I, like many other riders, am eagerly awaiting the clocks going forward.

▪ Police say they had to enforce the law after 1am when the clocks went forward an hour.

▪ When the clocks go back in late October it will be dark by five o'clock in the afternoon.

the going

the going rate/price/salary etc

▪ A million pounds is the going rate for an ordinary player in today's inflationary market.

▪ At the going rate of half a million dollars per minute, there is no time for truth.

▪ It typically is charged twice the going rate as the criminal inmates housed in the same facility.

▪ One can of C rations was the going rate.

▪ Or holiday-depending if he's got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.

▪ State law now prohibits insurers from denying coverage to small businesses or charging them more than 20 percent above the going rate.

▪ What is the going rate for bodies in Cairo, Mr el Zaki?

▪ Who is it that sets the going rate for our work?

there but for the grace of God (go I)

there goes sth/sb

there it is/there you are/there you go

there you are/there you go

there you go/she goes etc (again)

turn/go to mush

▪ All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.

way to go!

▪ Way to go, Kim! Now we'll have to start all over again.

when the going gets tough, the tough get going

while the going's good

▪ Let's get out while the going's good.

work/run/go like stink

you can't go wrong (with sth)

▪ You can't go wrong with a dark gray suit.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ "How are your exams going, Luke?" "Fine, thanks."

▪ As soon as the band started playing, the crowd went silent.

▪ Cats go "meow."

▪ Come on, Joe, it's time to go.

▪ Did the party go well?

▪ Did you go to the baseball game last weekend?

▪ Do you know what time the next bus goes?

▪ Do you think this goes?

▪ Don't go just yet - it's not that late!

▪ Fiona says that her new teaching job is going really well.

▪ Her face went bright red with embarrassment.

▪ How's the job going these days?

▪ How far have we gone today?

▪ How many of you actually went last week?

▪ I'll have to go soon - was there anything else you wanted to talk about?

▪ I've packed all my bags, and I'm ready to go.

▪ I can't get the lawnmower to go.

▪ I don't exactly remember how the song goes.

▪ I dropped my watch, but it's still going.

II.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

give

▪ They go on and on that we must give them a go.

▪ With another task force appointee, Spitzer gave it a go.

▪ As you can try them with no effort whatsoever, give them a go.

▪ Can you give it a go?

▪ You told me you're good at most sports, so you'd better just try and give it a go.

▪ Only Everest eluded her, although she gave it a good go, twice.

▪ But even at the grand old age of 28, he was keen to give it a go.

make

▪ Now she was set to make a go of her programming business, and nothing was going to stop her.

▪ The rest of the story is that my great-grandfather could never really make a go of his life after that.

▪ Carol found herself wishing that Fred could make a go of something.

▪ I keep expecting to hear you and Cora-Beth are making a go of it?

▪ She just knew she could make a go of it!

▪ He persuaded creditors to give him three years to make a go of the garden.

▪ Discs realised maybe they could make a go of it.

want

▪ Who would want to have a go at Oglethorpe?

▪ They wanted to have a go at me.

▪ I don't believe you wouldn't want a little go.

▪ I don't want to have a go.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(be prepared to) go to the stake for/over sth

(go) back to the drawing board

▪ Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.

▪ For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.

▪ So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.

▪ Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.

▪ The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.

▪ They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.

▪ They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.

▪ You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.

▪ You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.

(go) hand in hand

▪ Emotional thinking, the next step in emotional develop-ment, and attention also go hand in hand.

▪ Most of us were born in captivity where domestication and maturation work hand in hand.

▪ On the Internet modernity and pluralism go hand in hand.

▪ Stars and superstition just seem to go hand in hand.

▪ The child walking hand in hand with her father.

▪ The rationality of faith goes hand in hand with the mystery of faith.

▪ They go hand in hand because the momentum of population growth is so great.

▪ This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.

(go) jump in a lake!

(go) out of business

▪ But most analysts agree that many health insurance companies would be driven out of business.

▪ Farmers and ranchers are still going out of business on the plains today.

▪ If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out of business.

▪ It was assumed that I might well put a customer or two out of business.

▪ Now that the war was over the Navy was, in effect, out of business, and it sought repossession.

▪ Rather, the independent-minded newspapers believe that the government now wants to drive them out of business.

▪ The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.

▪ The league was out of business after three seasons.

(right) from the word go

▪ At the County Ground, the wolves were on the prowl right from the word go.

▪ I knew it was a deliberate attempt from the word go to bring the band down.

▪ In Damage, from Josephine Hart's novel, he gets more or less everything wrong from the word go.

▪ It was a nightmare from the word go.

▪ The marriage was a disaster from the word go, although I didn't realize this until it was all over.

▪ They are reflexes built into the system from the word go.

(you) go, girl!

a going concern

▪ Although its assets are notionally worth £10 billion, their market value as a going concern must be far less.

▪ But you and I know the Soviet Union is a going concern.

▪ In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.

▪ Prides Hill Kennels was a going concern.

▪ The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.

▪ The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.

▪ The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.

▪ To tell her that she and Piers were now a going concern?

a little (of sth) goes a long way

▪ A little ketchup goes a long way.

▪ Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.

▪ Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.

all systems go

▪ However, it was now all systems go for the future.

anything goes

▪ Don't worry about what to wear - anything goes at Ben's parties.

▪ With this season's fashions, anything goes.

▪ But it's a case of when you're down, anything goes.

▪ If anything goes wrong, she is there to alert the nurse.

▪ In the end humans will not adopt libertarian, anything goes values.

▪ The best thing about wraps is that anything goes.

▪ The world is ending, so anything goes.

▪ There is therefore the potential for personal distress if anything goes wrong.

▪ Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public.

▪ Whenever anything goes wrong, he blames it all on me.

as far as it goes

▪ What Kroll said was accurate, as far as it goes.

▪ My country has adopted individual rights in principle, but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.

▪ That's as far as it goes with me.

▪ That is encouraging as far as it goes.

▪ This self-defense strategy is fine as far as it goes, but it addresses only half of the prevention equation.

▪ Virtually all of it is right as far as it goes.

▪ We push it as far as it goes.

bang goes sth

be five/six/seven etc months gone

be getting/be going nowhere fast

be going begging

be going great guns

▪ It is going great guns with special lines, the Fortress Alarm and the upgraded, fancy number, the Citadel.

be going spare

▪ So 10,000 posters are going spare, and the Tories are laughing.

be going strong

▪ The program is 20 years old this month and is still going strong.

▪ I told you I'd put things off until this practice is going strong.

▪ Over at Half House the party was going strong.

▪ We were going strong when the bedroom door opened.

▪ When I'd washed up, the ebb was going strong again.

be gone

▪ Look at Michelle - she's totally gone!

▪ Even the corrals had weeds in them, because the horses were gone.

▪ He did something unusual, but after 15 minutes he was gone.

▪ Mrs Doran was gone, Elsie was dead.

▪ One day, though, all this will be gone.

▪ One more such blow, I thought, face down in the sand, and I am gone.

▪ Ten minutes later Glover felt sure it would be all right if he looked to see if the chief was gone.

▪ The next year they are gone.

▪ Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever.

be gone on sb

▪ Arthur would be gone on the stroke of nine, and Ann too, if it was possible.

be good to go

▪ "Do you have all the hiking gear?" "Yeah, I'm good to go."

▪ I've got my shoes on and I'm good to go.

▪ We just need to get you a pair of skis and you're good to go.

▪ But if you're receiving money it would be better to go for the lump sum.

▪ He wandered a bit, and when it grew dark, he decided that it would be best to go home.

▪ If parking is difficult in a built-up area it may be better to go by public transport.

▪ If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone.

▪ It is best to go for fabrics which are stretch- and fade-resistant as well as stain- and mildew-resistant.

▪ We decided it would be best to go straight away and travel overnight, with me and Richie sharing the driving.

be in raptures/go into raptures

be in service/go into service

be/come/go halfway to doing sth

be/go (out) on the razzle

be/go down with sth

▪ I was having a really hard time and I went down with Isabel and my dad.

▪ I went down with nothing but a. 45-caliber pistol and a flashlight.

▪ Looking back, it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble.

▪ Mr Black paid them off on all the equipment which went down with it, but which I know was not destroyed.

▪ Outside linebacker Mike Morton, making his first start since Rob Fredrickson went down with season-ending shoulder surgery, had eight tackles.

▪ There was a sudden space when the man at Riven's shoulder went down with a cry.

▪ These kids are 13, 14, and they wan na be down with somethin'.

▪ Who knows what went down with them?

be/go on (the) record as saying (that)

be/go on the fritz

▪ My TV is on the fritz.

▪ Their appliances go on the fritz.

be/go on the prowl (for sth/sb)

be/go on the wagon

▪ Sometimes I would go on the wagon for a few days then have a binge.

be/go round the bend

▪ But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.

▪ I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.

▪ If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend.

be/go/keep on about sth

▪ And they don't go on about his obvious flaws, like him being a doctor and having three dozen girlfriends.

▪ Everyone goes on about Cher's dresses, showing her navel.

▪ However, this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment.

▪ It sounded stupid the way she went on about loving the sea.

▪ It went on about 15 minutes too long.

▪ The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on about rubber.

▪ This made him wary as he went on about his chores and tried not to let Lucky see him.

▪ Why do I go on about this, I wonder.

be/go/keep on at sb

▪ A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men.

▪ But what's going on at No. 4 and No. 8 are free rides, nothing less.

▪ Funny stuff going on at the Olympics.

▪ He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up.

▪ I must say I was not totally happy about her going on at Yeo Davis, with me in the government.

▪ Something must be going on at school.

▪ There was some spitting going on at the end of the game.

▪ You used to go on at me about getting out.

be/run/go counter to sth

▪ A recipe would be counter to its nature.

▪ It ran counter to the ideas most Christians had held for well over a thousand years.

▪ It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.

▪ They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.

▪ This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.

▪ This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.

▪ While I did this, I was encouraging her to talk through opinions of her own that ran counter to these discussions.

blow/go hot and cold

▪ Paula was going hot and cold by now.

▪ She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.

▪ Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.

come and go

▪ A force that comes and goes depending on your motion.

▪ As the New Year came and went, so did millions of resolutions to turn over a healthier leaf.

▪ Certainly the various court officials who came and went didn't seem interested.

▪ Generations of policemen have come and gone waiting for that mistake.

▪ He wore a pale green business shirt, and his shave was absolutely perfect, even as midafternoon came and went.

▪ Only this can explain to me why he comes and goes, comes and goes.

▪ The girl was a good worker who came and went quietly about her business.

▪ They each came and went as they pleased.