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English citations of go

intransitive: to disappear

    • 1983, Daniel Curzon, From Violent Men, page 228:
      It was truly, for once in history, a time of 'brotherly love' and and now it's about to go away forever.
    • 1995, Dick Hobbs, Bad Business: Professional Crime in Modern Britain, page 31:
      He walked out the house — just went don't know where, just went.
    • 2004, Jayne Ann Krentz, Absolutely, Positively, page 143:
      She sacrificed a great deal for Brandon's sake, and now it's about to go up in smoke."

intransitive: to be destroyed; to disintegrate

    • 1998, Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, page 157:
      I wonder if I hopped up and down, would the bridge go?
    • 1998, Anne Rivers Siddons, Peachtree Road, page 548:
      It's going to go soon enough anyway, but if we play things just right, we can hold that day off until you — all of you boys, the next wave, so to speak - are ready to take up the reins
    • 2004, Stephen Cottrell, Professional Music-Making in London: Ethnography and Experience, page 161:
      but if you sit in front of a noise like that for too long your hearing starts to go, or you think it's going to go.

either 'enjoy' or 'put up with, tolerate, endure'

  • 2009, Edwin M. Woods, You Go Home Make More Money and Come Back →ISBN:
    I couldn't go the zebra; having watched the lions eat a zebra the day before...but one of the girls at the table had no problem with taking a zebra steak.

go under

intransitive: possibly 'be known as, be considered'

  • 2009, S. B. Jung, Lines of Neutrality: Book One of the Assassin Chronicles →ISBN, page 51:
    Migraines and pounding headaches go under 'bad.' Slight headaches go under 'good' considering the headaches I could be suffering.”

intransitive: 'be categorized'?

  • 2002, Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace with the Things in Your Life →ISBN, page 153:
    I'd rather it go under B for 'blue' because it's on blue paper.

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  • 1912, Daniel D. Bidwell, As Far as the East is from the West, page 36:
    Things seem to go by opposites in this forgotten port, or at least the driver of carro No. 62 seemed to go by opposites.

transitive: 'visit'?

  • 1866, Anthony Trollope, The Claverings, chapter 30, in The Galaxy, volume 2, page 558:
    Florence was aware that her mother simply required a little time before she made up her mind. "It is not that I want to go London—for the pleasure of it, mamma. Nor yet merely to him see! But Cecilia is so very prudent, and she thinks that it will be better."

transitive: 'take someone up on an offer'?

  • 1903, Arthur M. Winfield, The Rover Boys on Land and Sea, page 2:
    "How much to take the three of us to the Oakland House?"
    "Take you there for a dollar, trunks and all."
    "I'll go you," answered Dick Rover. "Come on, I'll see that you get the right trunks."

'date, have sex with'

  • 2005, Frederick Smith, Down For Whatever‎, Kensington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:
    You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]
  • 2006 November, Pat Mulligan, The Life and Times of a Hollywood Bad Boy‎, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 184:
    After the German, I went black. Since 1990, I've dated exclusively, black women.
  • 2010 November 9, Greg Fitzsimmons, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox‎, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 166:
    I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should have gone Asian.
  • 2010, Marty Nazzaro, The City of Presidents, FriesenPress (→ISBN), page 131:
    “I could give a flying fuck less if Ronnie dated a Martian, but the fact of the matter is that it would not be cool for him to go Asian. He knows it and I know it.” Ronnie did not respond at all. Shit, he wanted to date Tai in the worst way,
  • 2011, Ralph Reed, Ballots and Blood‎, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:
    I'm telling you, if you want a wife who'll take care of you, go Asian.
  • 2011 May 3, Sandra Guzm‡n, The New Latina's Bible: The Modern Latina's Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida‎, Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
    In fact, Hispanics and Asians are riding the wave—26 percent of Latino and 31 percent of Asian newlywed couples were mixed race or ethnicity. And, when marrying out, we went white—four in ten Latinos married a white spouse, […]
  • 2012 March 1, Sylvia Lett, All Night Lover‎, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 182:
    She's gone black now. That's a big change for you, Cassie. So tell me, is it true what they say about black men?
  • 2017 May 16, Judith A. Yates, "She Is Evil!": Madness and Murder in Memphis‎, WildBlue Press, →ISBN, →OCLC:
    “She went black,” he remembers. “She only started dating black guys. Or foreigners.”
  • 2018 November 27, M.J. Kane, A Heart Not Easily Broken (Butterfly Memoirs)‎, Written Musings, →ISBN:
    “Your twin is dating a white man,” Lashana interjected. […] “ […] Now, let me get this straight, Eb, you've gone white?”
  • 2018 November 20, L. H. Draken, The Year of the Rabid Dragon: A Chinese Thriller (Nathan Troy Thriller)‎, Graubär Press, →ISBN:
    A Western guy could easily date up three or four points if he went Asian. It was common knowledge. Walk around Sanlitun mall area and you'd see a half-dozen mediocre, ugly even, white guys sporting some decent-looking arm candy.
  • 2022 January 4, Radhika Sanghani, 30 Things I Love About Myself‎, Penguin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
    She's hot. Hey, how are your parents about it all? I mean, you're breaking two taboos there—you're dating women, and you've gone white.

(food sense)

  • 2012, Linda Leven, The Intimacy Maelstrom (→ISBN), page 143:
    "OK! Come on. We'll get some burgers and fries . . . my favourite meal of all time," he finally offered cheerfully, breaking the frigid silence between them.
    Again, thought Gretchen, only what he wants. "I'd like to go Chinese tonight," she curtly cut him off.
    "I hate Chink food!" Ron bellowed

be pregnant

To pass (a specified time) in gestation; to be pregnant.
  • 1645, Howell, Lett. (1650), I., ss 3, xxiv, 76:
    The Queen is big, and hath no many days to go.
  • 1661, Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., introduction:
    The woolf goeth a month or forty daies.
  • 1795, Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 84:
    The female goes two months, and then brings forth two young ones.
  • 1845, Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., V, II, 518:
    A mare goes somewhere about eleven months with young.
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