move on

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move on (third-person singular simple present moves on, present participle moving on, simple past and past participle moved on)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To continue; to proceed; to go on.
    After spending the night resting in an abandoned church, the group decided to move on in their quest.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
      Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To start dealing with something else.
    The best revenge is always to just happily move on and let karma do the rest.
    • 2015 May 12, Rachel Platten, Dave Bassett, Brian West, “Beating Me Up”, in Fight Song‎, performed by Rachel Platten:
      You've moved on, I know I should too
      My cuts are all gone, my pain feels brand new
    • 2021, Olivia Rodrigo, “good 4 u”, in SOUR‎:
      Well, good for you, I guess you moved on really easily
      You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks
    • 2025 March 14, Gershom Gorenberg, “Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the Truth to Come Out”, in The Atlantic‎:
      In Israel, a state commission of inquiry is not merely a judicial instrument or a means of settling facts. It’s a ritual of national closure that allows people to put events in order and move on.
    • 2024 August 19, Ellie Violet Bramley, “Ted Baker’s closure was foreseeable from a fashion perspective”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      Part of the problem is that Ted Baker hasn’t moved on. In an era of hyper-fast fashion, where consumers can buy into new trends in the bat of an eyelid at very low cost, Ted Baker’s dedication to its staid aesthetic read like an admission of defeat long before its actual demise.
  3. (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To attempt a seduction, often in a way seen as disloyal or rude to another.
    I think Shane is going to move on my ex tonight.

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