I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bill goes through parliament (= it goes through the process of being made a law )
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The bill is currently going through Parliament.
a bomb explodes/goes off
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Forty people were injured when the bomb exploded.
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A 200 pound bomb went off in the car park.
a bug is going around (= a lot of people have it )
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A lot of staff are off because there’s a bug going round.
a bus goes/leaves
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The last bus went ten minutes ago.
a candle goes out
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A sudden draught made the candles go out.
a case comes/goes to court
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When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.
a case comes/goes to trial
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By the time her case went to trial, her story had changed.
a case goes/comes to trial
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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 bankrupt/goes out of business (= stops doing business after losing too much money )
a company goes bust informal (= goes bankrupt )
a company goes into liquidation (= is closed and sold in order to pay its debts )
a company goes to the wall informal (= goes bankrupt )
a deal goes through/ahead (= it happens as arranged )
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It’s 99% certain that the deal will go through.
a fire goes out (= it stops burning )
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After several hours, the fire eventually went out.
a flame goes out (= stops burning )
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Try not to let the flame go out.
a headache goes away (= it stops )
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I'd like to lie down for a bit to make my headache go away,
a level falls/goes down/decreases
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Pollution levels have fallen slightly.
a level rises/goes up/increases
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The level of unemployment has increased.
a month passes/goes by
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Seven months went by before he returned.
a number falls/drops/goes down/decreases/declines
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The number of new houses being built is falling steadily.
a number increases/goes up/grows/rises
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The number of mobile phones has increased dramatically.
a phase...going through
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It’s just a phase he’s going through .
a price goes down/falls/decreases
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In real terms, the price of clothes has fallen over the last ten years.
a price goes up/rises/increases
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When supplies go down, prices tend to go up.
a prize goes to sb (= they get it )
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The fiction prize goes to Carol Shields.
a road leads/goes/runs somewhere
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We turned into the road leading to the village.
a rumour goes around ( also a rumour circulates formal ) (= a rumour is passed among people )
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There are a lot of rumors going around that they’re going to sell the company.
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Not long afterwards, ugly rumours began to circulate.
a shudder ran/passed/went through sb
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A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers.
a story goes around (= people tell it to each other )
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A story went around that she had been having an affair.
a wheel turns/goes around
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The wheels went slowly around.
all go
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It was all go from 8.00 until we finished at 5.00.
an alarm clock goes off (= rings at a particular time )
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What time do you want the alarm clock to go off tomorrow?
an alarm goes off ( also an alarm sounds formal )
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The thieves fled when an alarm went off.
approach/reach/go into etc double figures
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The death toll is thought to have reached double figures.
as time goes on (= as time passes )
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I understood him better as time went on.
be in/go into/come out of hiding
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He went into hiding in 1973.
be/go beyond the bounds of credibility/reason/decency etc
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The humor in the movie sometimes goes beyond the bounds of good taste.
be/go in the tank
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Sales can’t keep going up, but that doesn’t mean the industry is going in the tank.
carry on/go on regardless British English (= continue what you are doing )
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You get a lot of criticism, but you just have to carry on regardless.
cheer went up
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A great cheer went up from the crowd.
come/go around a corner
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At that moment, a police car came around the corner.
come/go ashore
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Seals come ashore to breed.
come/go/pass etc through an entrance
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People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.
consumption falls/decreases/goes down
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Coal consumption has fallen dramatically.
consumption rises/increases/goes up
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Consumption of unleaded fuel rose by 17% in 1992.
continue/grow/go unchecked
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We cannot allow such behaviour to continue unchecked.
dead and gone informal (= completely dead )
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Let’s face it, we’ll all be dead and gone soon.
enough to go round (= enough of something for everyone to have some )
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Do you think we’ve got enough pizza to go round?
enter/go into/join a profession
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Hugh intended to enter the medical profession.
fall/go down in value
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There is a risk that the shares may fall in value.
far gone
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She’s pretty far gone – can you drive her home?
fire alarm went off
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We were in the middle of an exam when the fire alarm went off .
found...heavy going
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I found his latest novel a bit heavy going .
get the adrenalin going (= make you feel nervously excited )
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There’s nothing like a good horror film to get the adrenalin going .
get/go from A to B
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Hiring a car was the best way to get from A to B.
give/go into/provide etc specifics
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Thurman was reluctant to go into specifics about the deal.
go a long way towards (= will help to reach a goal )
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Your contributions will go a long way towards helping children in need .
go about your chores (= do your chores )
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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 )
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If everything goes according to plan, we’ll finish in January.
go all gooey
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Babies make her go all gooey .
go all out
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Canada will have to go all out on the ice if they want to win.
go all shy British English (= to suddenly become very shy )
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Oh, have you gone all shy, Jenny?
go and get
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Shall I go and get the phone book?
go back on an agreement ( also renege on an agreement formal ) (= not do what you agreed to do )
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Republican leaders accused Democrats of trying to renege on an agreement to have a House vote.
go back on your promise (= break it )
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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 )
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Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
go back to/return to your seat
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The audience clapped as he returned to his seat.
go back/get back to sleep (= sleep again after waking up )
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He shut his eyes and went back to sleep.
go badly wrong (= go wrong in a serious way )
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Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.
go badly/seriously wrong
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The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.
go before/be put before parliament (= be considered by parliament )
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The Bill goes before Parliament on November 16.
go behind...back (= do something without telling me )
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I should have realized that he’d go behind my back .
go boating
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Let’s go boating on the lake.
go bowling
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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 )
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As he had long red hair, he went by the name of Red.
go by/travel by train
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We decided to go by train.
go click
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Soon there were photographers all around him going click, click, click.
go cold turkey
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addicts who are made to go cold turkey
go crazy
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Dad will go crazy when he hears about this.
go deaf (= become deaf )
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By the time he was 50 he had begun to go deaf.
go disastrously wrong
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Help was close at hand in case the stunt went disastrously wrong.
go down a hill
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It's best to use a low gear when you are going down steep hills.
go down in history (= be remembered for many years )
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She will go down in history as one of the greatest tennis players of all time.
go downtown
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I have to go downtown later.
go ex-directory
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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 )
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Many people felt that the new law did not go far enough .
go fifty-fifty (on sth) (= share the cost of something equally )
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We went fifty-fifty on a new TV set.
go for a curry (= go to a restaurant to eat a curry )
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How about going for a curry on Saturday night?
go for a drink (= go to a pub or bar )
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Why don’t we go for a drink after work?
go for a drive
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Let’s go for a drive along the coast.
go for a medical/dental etc check
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She advised me to go for a medical check.
go for a paddle
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If it’s not too cold, we can go for a paddle .
go for a pee/have a pee BrE, take a pee American English not polite
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Have I got time to go for a pee before we leave?
go for a ride
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He went for a ride in a private plane piloted by a friend.
go for a row
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Why don’t we go for a row ?
go for a spin
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Let’s go for a spin in the country.
go for a test
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I’m going for an eye test next week.
go for a walk
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Let’s go for a walk on the beach.
go for an interview ( also attend an interview formal )
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I went for an interview at a software company yesterday.
go for an option (= choose an option )
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Which option do you think they'll go for?
go for/have/take a piss
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I need to have a piss.
go for...swim
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Let’s go for a swim .
go forward
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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 )
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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 )
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Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other .
go green (= change so that it harms the environment less )
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The industry has promised to go green .
go hiking
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Utah is a great place to go hiking .
go horribly/terribly wrong
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From that moment on, everything went horribly wrong for the team.
go in a direction
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I can give you a lift if you're going in my direction.
go in convoy (= go together, in separate vehicles )
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We could all meet up somewhere and go in convoy.
go into a coma
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Mum went into a coma and died soon afterwards.
go into a dive (= start to move downwards )
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The plane was in trouble, then it went into a dive.
go into action
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American soldiers are going into action against the Mujahadin.
go into business (= start working in business )
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A lot of university graduates want to go into business.
go into detail (= give a lot of details )
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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
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Napoleon's wife and sons also went into exile.
go into teaching (= become a teacher )
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Some very talented and dedicated people go into teaching.
go into the army
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When Dan left school, he went into the army.
go into/enter into an alliance with sb
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Spain then entered into an alliance with France.
go into/enter the charts
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The album entered the UK charts at number 2.
go jogging
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I go jogging every morning.
go lame (= become lame )
go mad (= start to feel crazy )
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I’d go mad if I was stuck at home all day.
go mad British English (= become very angry )
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Look at this mess! Mum will go mad!
go missing British English
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The scissors have gone missing again.
go missing British English
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Nearly 100,000 young people go missing in Britain each year.
go mouldy British English (= become mouldy )
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The bread’s gone mouldy.
go near
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She told the children not to go near the canal.
go numb
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The anaesthetic made his whole face go numb .
go nuts (= become crazy )
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I’m going to go nuts if I don’t find a new job soon.
go off sth/sb British English
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I used to enjoy tennis, but I’ve gone off it a bit now.
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She seems to have gone off Mark since he’s grown a beard.
go off your food British English (= to stop wanting to eat )
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Since becoming ill, he has gone off his food.
go off/walk off/leave etc in a huff
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She stormed out in a huff.
go on a course British English
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My company wanted me to go on a course in management skills.
go on a cruise
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What about going on a cruise down the Nile?
go on a demonstration British English (= take part in a demonstration )
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I've never been on a demonstration before.
go on a diet (= start eating less or only some types of food )
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I really ought to go on a diet.
go on a journey (= make a long journey )
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We are going on a journey to a strange country.
go on a trip (= go somewhere and come back )
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I’ve been on a coach trip to France.
go on an expedition
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We decided to go on a shopping expedition to London.
go on an expedition
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After the war, Swainson went on an expedition to Patagonia.
go on holiday
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The children were excited about going on holiday.
go on leave (= start your time away from work )
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I’ll get the report to you before you go on leave.
go on strike/come out on strike (= start a strike )
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An estimated 70,000 public sector workers went on strike.
go on the bus/use the bus (= travel by bus )
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It's easier to go on the bus than to drive.
go on the Internet
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I went on the Internet to find some information for my assignment.
go on trial
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Taylor went on trial accused of fraud.
go on vacation
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I'm going on vacation next month.
go on your instinct(s) informal (= trust your instincts )
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I just went on my instincts and refused his offer.
go on/go for a picnic
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If it's fine, we'll go for a picnic.
go on/go for a picnic
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If it's fine, we'll go for a picnic.
go onstage
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Even today I get nervous before I go onstage .
go organic (= buy only organic food, or use only organic methods to farm )
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Not all families can afford to go organic.
go (out) for a meal
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How about going out for a meal tonight?
go out for/to dinner (= go and eat in a restaurant )
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Would you like to go out for dinner on Saturday?
go out for/to lunch (= have lunch at a restaurant )
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I don't often go out to lunch, as it's expensive.
go out of business (= stop doing business because of financial problems )
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In a recession smaller firms often go out of business.
go out of existence (= stop existing )
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If a buyer isn't found, this famous old club could go out of existence.
go out of fashion (= stop being fashionable )
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Long evening dresses are going out of fashion.
go over a limit (= go beyond a limit )
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Borrowers who go over the spending limit set by the credit card company are penalised.
go overdrawn
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I try not to go overdrawn if possible.
go private British English (= pay for medical treatment instead of getting it free at a public hospital )
go quietly
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Speculation is growing that Grogan will be replaced at the end of the season, and he is unlikely to go quietly .
go riding
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Shall we go riding on Saturday?
go round/around
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Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
go running
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Did you go running this morning?
go rusty
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a new metal that will never go rusty
go sailing
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Bud has invited us to go sailing this weekend.
go shopping
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She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.
go skiing
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We’re going to go skiing in Colorado this winter.
go soft
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Cook the onions until they go soft .
go solo (= work for himself )
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Amos quit the company, determined to go solo .
go somewhere by bike
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I usually go to work by bike.
go stale
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Other marriages might go stale , but not theirs.
go stir-crazy
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I’m going to go stir-crazy if I don’t get out of this house.
go swimming
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Let’s go swimming this afternoon.
go through a divorce (= experience getting a divorce )
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I was going through a divorce and it was a very painful time.
go through a gate
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They went through the gate into the orchard.
go through a procedure
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We had to go through the whole procedure again.
go through a process ( also undergo a process formal ) (= experience a process )
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A lot of companies are going through a process of change.
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The system underwent a process of simplification.
go through a stage
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Most young people go through a rebellious stage.
go through an ordeal ( also undergo an ordeal formal ) (= experience something that is very bad or difficult )
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I'd already gone through the ordeal of a divorce once.
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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 )
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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
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Iona reached the final, but she had to go through the pain barrier to get there.
go through the rigmarole of
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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 )
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I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
go tinkle
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Do you have to go tinkle ?
go to a clinic ( also attend a clinic formal )
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Pregnant women should attend an antenatal clinic at least once a month.
go to (a) college
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After university I went to drama college for a year.
go to a concert ( also attend a concert formal )
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Do you want to go to the concert in the park this weekend?
go to a conference ( also attend a conference formal )
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Hundreds of delegates are attending the conference.
go to a festival ( also attend a festival formal )
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An estimated 20,000 people had attended the festival.
go to a lecture ( also attend a lecture formal )
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Have you been to any of Professor MacPherson’s lectures?
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I recently attended a lecture by a noted historian.
go to a lesson ( also attend a lesson formal )
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I have to go to my French lesson now.
go to a match
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I love going to football matches.
go to a meeting ( also attend a meeting formal )
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All staff members are expected to attend the meeting.
go to a movie
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How about going to a movie?
go to a performance ( also attend a performance formal )
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We can go to the evening performance if you prefer.
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The Princess attended a performance of The Magic Flute at the London Coliseum.
go to a restaurant
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We went to a restaurant in the King’s Road.
go to a wedding ( also attend a wedding formal )
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I’m going to a wedding on Saturday.
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About 100 people attended the wedding.
go to an event ( also attend an event formal )
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Unfortunately, the prime minister will not be able to attend the event.
go to an exhibition ( also attend/visit an exhibition formal )
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We went to an exhibition of Russian art at the National Gallery.
go to bed early
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I think I’ll go to bed early tonight.
go to bed
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What time do you go to bed at night?
go to charity
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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 )
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Do you go to church?
go to court (= take legal action )
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The costs of going to court are very high.
go to hospital British English , go to the hospital American English
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The pain got worse and she had to go to the hospital.
go to jail
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They’re going to jail for a long time.
go to mass
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What time do you go to mass ?
go to prison
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She went to prison for theft.
go to school
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Did you go to school in Paris?
go to sea (= go to work on a ship )
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He went to sea when he was eighteen.
go to (see) a play
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While we were in New York, we went to a play.
go to sleep (= start sleeping )
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He turned over and went to sleep.
go to the bank
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I went to the bank and took out $80.
go to the bathroom (= use a toilet )
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I really need to go to the bathroom .
go to the beach
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They've gone to the beach for the weekend.
go to the cinema
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Why don’t we go to the cinema tonight?
go to the doctor
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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 )
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The council must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealing through the courts.
go to the gym
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I go to the gym as often as I can.
go to the loo (= use the toilet )
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I need to go to the loo .
go to the opera (= go to a performance of opera )
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We go to the opera regularly.
go to the store American English (= go to a store that sells food )
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I need to go to the store for some milk.
go to the toilet ( also use the toilet especially BrE )
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He got up to go to the toilet in the middle of the night.
go to university
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Her daughter was about to go to university.
go to war (= become involved in a war )
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It has been said that democracies don’t go to war with each other.
go to/attend a class
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I’ve got to go to a science class now.
go to/come to a party ( also attend a party formal )
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Are you going to Tom’s party?
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About 500 people will attend a party in her honour.
go to/visit the library
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I need to go to the library to return some books.
go tragically wrong (= so that death or serious injury results )
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A father and son died in a fire after a good deed for a friend went tragically wrong.
go unchallenged
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She couldn’t let a statement like that go unchallenged .
go unrecognized
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an illness that can go unrecognized for years
go up the wall British English
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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
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Be careful going down the ladder!
go whale-watching
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You can go whale watching off the coast.
go/come on stage
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I never drink before going on stage.
go/come/arrive by taxi
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I went back home by taxi.
goes abroad
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She often goes abroad on business.
goes climbing
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He goes climbing nearly every weekend.
goes clubbing
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She always goes clubbing when she’s in New York.
goes for a...jog
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Mike goes for a two-mile jog every morning.
goes for...run
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She usually goes for a run before breakfast.
goes off on a riff
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He goes off on a riff about the problems of being middle-aged.
goes ping
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The microwave goes ping when the food’s ready.
goes smoothly
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It’ll take about three hours if everything goes smoothly .
goes stale (= becomes stale )
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French bread goes stale very quickly.
goes to chapel
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Bethan goes to chapel every Sunday.
goes to show (= proves )
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It just goes to show how much people judge each other on how they look.
goes undercover
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a cop who goes undercover to catch drug dealers
goes unreported
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Rape is a crime that often goes unreported.
go/fall into a trance
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She went into a deep hypnotic trance.
go/fall into decline (= become less important, successful etc )
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At the beginning of the century the cloth trade was going into decline.
going bald
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Dad started going bald when he was in his thirties.
going blind (= becoming blind )
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He was slowly going blind .
going cheap (= selling for a lower price than usual )
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I bought this house because it was going cheap .
going crazy
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I feel so alone, sometimes I wonder if I’m going crazy .
going fishing
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Terry’s going fishing at Lake Arrowhead next weekend.
going for a ramble
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I quite like the idea of going for a ramble one weekend.
going full blast
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I had the gas fire going full blast .
going head-to-head with
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Courier companies are going head-to-head with the Post Office.
going home
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I’m going home now. See you tomorrow.
going over the same ground (= talking about the same things )
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At meetings, we just keep going over the same ground .
going right
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Everything’s going right for him at the moment.
going senile
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She worries about going senile .
going to arbitration (= someone is being asked to arbitrate )
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The dispute is going to arbitration .
going to fly
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News is that the plan for the new hotel isn’t going to fly .
going under (= becoming unconscious )
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The doctor injected something into my arm and I immediately felt myself going under .
going...to the shops
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I’m just going down to the shops .
gone AWOL
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Two soldiers had gone AWOL the night before.
gone bad
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This milk has gone bad .
gone flat (= become flat )
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Have you checked that the batteries haven’t gone flat ?
gone horribly wrong
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The plan had gone horribly wrong .
gone insane
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Why did you do that? Have you gone insane ?
gone into remission
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The cancer has gone into remission .
gone into spasm
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Tom’s jaw muscles had gone into spasm .
gone kaput
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The TV’s gone kaput .
gone midnight (= after midnight )
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You can’t phone her now – it’s gone midnight !
gone off
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Do you think the meat’s gone off ?
gone on a binge
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Ken’s gone on a binge with his mates.
gone on an outing
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They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert’s birthday.
gone out on a limb (= taken a risk )
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He’d gone out on a limb to help us.
gone through hell
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She must have gone through hell every day, the way we teased her about her weight.
gone to extremes
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She had gone to extremes to avoid seeing him.
gone unrecorded
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Many of the complaints have gone unrecorded .
gone unrewarded
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His efforts have not gone unrewarded .
gone up the spout
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My plans for the weekend seem to have gone up the spout .
gone...soggy
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The sandwiches have gone all soggy .
go...on deck
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Let’s go up on deck .
go/pass through a cycle
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Advanced economies seem to go through a regular cycle.
go/pass unnoticed
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His remark went unnoticed by everyone except me.
go/remain undetected
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Doctors can make mistakes and diseases can remain undetected.
go/run through a checklist (= read it to see what still needs doing )
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I’ll just run through the checklist one more time.
gossip goes around (= it is told by one person to another )
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It was a small village, and any gossip went around very quickly.
go/travel by bus
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I usually go to work by bus.
go/travel by car
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I try to use public transport instead of going by car.
go/travel by coach
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We spent three days travelling by coach across France.
go/turn grey
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She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.
go/turn red
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Every time you mention his name, she goes bright red.
go/turn to sb for advice
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People often go to him for advice about their problems.
go/turn/flush/blush crimson
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The boy blushed crimson.
go/turn/flush/blush scarlet
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Eileen blushed scarlet at the joke.
go/walk down a mountain
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She lost her way as she went down the mountain.
go/walk up a mountain ( also ascend a mountain formal )
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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 )
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Hardly a month goes by without another factory closing down.
how’s it going
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So how’s it going at work these days? Still enjoying it?
if anything can go wrong, it will
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I’m sure that if anything can go wrong, it will.
in years gone by (= in the past )
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The old fort defended the island in years gone by.
increase/rise/go up in value
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The dollar has been steadily increasing in value.
it went against the grain
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Mary is always honest and it went against the grain to tell lies.
join/go into the services
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Maybe you should join the services.
keep the momentum going ( also sustain the momentum formal ) (= keep being successful )
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Hopefully we can keep the momentum going and win the next game as well.
let sth go for £20/$200 etc
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I couldn’t let it go for less than £300.
let...go to pot
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The government has let the whole country go to pot .
look/go/read through your notes
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I read through my notes before the exam.
made...go weak at the knees
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His smile made her go weak at the knees .
make a pilgrimage/go on (a) pilgrimage
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the chance to go on pilgrimage to Mecca
make...go with a swing
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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 )
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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 )
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All the money went on doctor’s bills.
move/go upmarket
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a brand that’s moved upmarket
(= it is trying to attract richer people )
my/our sympathy goes out to sb formal (= used to formally express sympathy )
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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 )
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If you decide to marry him, there will be no going back .
nowhere to go/live/sit etc
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I have no job and nowhere to live.
On your marks – get set – go (= said to start a race )
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On your marks – get set – go .
return to work/go back to work
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His doctor agreed he was fit enough to return to work.
rough going (= a difficult and unpleasant experience )
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If there is a recession, next year will be very rough going.
sales fall/drop/go down (= become lower )
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European sales have fallen by 12%.
sales increase/rise/grow/go up
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Sales rose by 9% last year.
sb's hearing goes (= someone becomes unable to hear )
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His hearing has gone in one ear.
sb’s anger goes away/subsides/fades (= it stops )
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I counted to ten and waited for my anger to go away.
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His anger slowly subsided.
sb’s face goes/turns pale (= becomes pale )
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I saw her face go pale when he walked in.
sb’s face goes/turns red (= becomes red )
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His face went red with embarrassment.
sb’s income falls/goes down
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Average income fell by one third during this period.
sb’s income rises/increases/goes up
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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 )
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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 )
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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 )
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The company’s shares rose 5.5p to 103p.
something funny going on
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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 )
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The school’s origins go back to the 12th century.
stick to/go by the rules informal (= obey them )
▪
We all have to stick to the rules.
take/go for/have a wander
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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 )
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The poetry award went to Lisa Mueller for ‘Alive Together'.
The clocks go forward
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The clocks go forward this weekend.
the cost falls/goes down
▪
Airline costs have fallen considerably.
the cost rises/goes up
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The cost of electricity has risen again.
the going rate (= the usual amount paid )
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She could not afford to pay them the going rate.
The going...heavy (= it was muddy for the horse races )
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The going was heavy at Cheltenham yesterday.
the heating goes off
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The heating goes off automatically when the room is warm enough.
the legend goes (= says )
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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 subsides formal ) (= 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/decreases more formal )
▪
We are expecting unemployment rates to fall.
the rate goes up ( also the rate rises/increases more 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
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She swam and sunbathed, went sightseeing , and relaxed.
went skating
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We went skating in Central Park.
went skinny-dipping
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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 )
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.
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You go ahead , but paint the windows.
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If all of the tax breaks are doing that much damage, go ahead and eliminate them.
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We gon na go ahead and forget about it.
▪
In the event, an activity-based curriculum went ahead , albeit somewhat clandestinely.
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The next step is to decide whether or not to go ahead .
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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.
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As her fingers are all gone she finds cooking most difficult.
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They'd all gone to bed the night before when I'd returned from a last noggin with Harry.
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It was all going to happen, now.
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We all went after girls: Richard always got them.
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He presumed those men who had been on duty had all gone in the helicopter to help the others.
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Babur hopes very much that it is all going to work out for Stuart.
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It's one we are all going to have to acquire, thought Grimma, ignoring Granny's hurt stare.
along
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The cart went along by the garden wall, and round to the back door.
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They went along fine, just fine until she saw it all again while she was dancing.
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I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.
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To go along , grab one of the garlic knot rolls from the bread basket.
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The brainy men all went along To see that nothing should go wrong.
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Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.
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Starting from the left-hand side, Martin works across the picture, completing the work in small areas as he goes along .
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Few initiatives succeed without improvising strategies as you go along .
anywhere
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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.
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He says this a new, modern ship, so it can go anywhere , in any weather!
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It was Saturday, and he had no need to go anywhere .
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Worth a visit - but there's really no need to go anywhere .
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They didn't have to go anywhere .
around
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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.
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No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.
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At bridge 14 you can join the Bierton Circular Walk which goes around the village of Bierton.
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I was based in the executive offices and I was going around rendering lobbies and nightclubs for the Ramada.
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They went around the house by the gravel drive to the east.
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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.
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In 1682, he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years.
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More people are going back to work with their hands than ever before.
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We tend to regard it as a relatively new phenomenon, yet there are examples in cricket going back over 120 years.
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She went back to Milton abruptly, instead of moving permanently to New York as she had been planning to do.
by
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In fact if the books are anything to go by then he is doing everything wrong.
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It feels as if days have gone by in the ten hours since they drove this route in the opposite direction.
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The first hour went by slowly enough, the second even more slowly.
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A week does not go by without representatives from around the world arriving to view the Tucson cluster model.
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It's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by .
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As the days went by , however, and no further incident was reported, he began to relax.
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Then the most unbelievable thing happens: A week goes by .
down
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In fact, he was the one who encouraged me to go down to the Lesbian and Gay Centre in Edinburgh.
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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.
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People began to feel haunted, cursed, doomed to die, their foreheads sealed when Wisconsin Steel went down .
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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 .
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Slightly irritated he thinks that there is something wrong with the lock and goes down to reception for assistance.
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When the mill went down , Tony Roque fled.
far
▪
The situation is too far gone .
▪
Some cases were too far gone .
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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.
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I'd been too far gone for that.
▪
The philosopher, by contrast, has the right to go far beyond such language.
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Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly, I couldn't have gone far , and anyway I didn't mind walking.
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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 .
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Moderating economic expansion in recent months has reduced potential inflationary pressures going forward .
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The business is either going forward or going backward because everyone else is going forward.
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Finally she left her seat and went forward to accept the Lord, leaving her Bible on the seat.
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I cocked the old gun and squeezed the trigger, and it just went forward too slowly to fire a round.
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The country faces a pivotal presidential election in June in which the choice is quite simply to go forward or regress.
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Lily went forward to the wings and looked at the set.
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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 .
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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 .
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Indeed, this uniqueness goes further in human beings than in any other animal.
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Why go further , especially if it will benefit only the rich at the expense of everyone else?
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If anything, START-2 could have gone further , pushing the limits below 2, 000.
home
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I want to go home , a small voice wailed inside.
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They shook hands and got in their cars and went home to supper.
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Finally, before he went home , Teesdale looked into the hanging-shed.
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Once she had a family whom she went home to visit on holidays.
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He went home , with his misery increased.
▪
Of course she'd go home , if anything went wrong with him.
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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.
in
▪
Should she go in for a drink?
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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 .
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When Harry and Kate make love, which is frequently, they go in for lots of lighted candles.
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So I knew we had to keep quiet about it until the patent went in .
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Before going in , he remembers the envelopes, and opens the second one.
never
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So whether you're visiting Perth or Penzance, you need never go short of cash.
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We hunted only a few times but by the end I knew I would never go hunting again.
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The search didn't extend very far because Elsie never went more than two or three miles from home.
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When I was a girl, I left my country too and never went back.
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I never went there to stay, but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills.
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In fact, I almost never go to the office.
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Why could I never go out with them, be like them or have as nice clothes as them?
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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.
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My great-grandparents were aghast at the idea of a married woman, with a child, going off to school.
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But on his advice I went off to the optician and ended up wearing glasses.
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So one day when my grandfather came in and began insulting my grandmother, my father went off on him.
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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 .
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Lee was stupid, going off like that on his own.
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When we got to the bridge just over the crest of the hill, I lost it and we went off .
on
▪
As hair gets tied back, so nail varnish comes off and old, stain-absorbing clothes go on .
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When the light went on , a dozen or so large flies began buzzing around the room, which unsettled him.
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The 20 teams were put into four pools, with the top two from each going on to the quarter-finals.
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The survey did not ask where the boss was while all this was going on .
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They also do not know what is going on or what to do next.
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Go on now, if I need anything else it call you.
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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.
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Black has gone out with Doc Martens combat boots, and color has come in.
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Dot wished, after all, that Gloria hadn't gone out because Gloria liked parties and now she was missing it.
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Charles, we're going out to eat.
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I am not going out there to jump in a manure pile.
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And just to prove it, he went out and did it!
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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.
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It took her three tries before it went over .
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A nice house-present to give the Soviets when he went over .
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He didn't go over to the Republic or see friends.
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We will get some money that normally camps out in stocks going over to the bonds for a while.
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Be careful not to go over the edge of the image.
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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 .
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I understand that love makes the world go round .
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When there's no answer, they quickly go round to the rear.
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Others go round residential neighbourhoods with their carts collecting different kinds of scrap from shops and houses.
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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.
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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.
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Where there is a real emergency, the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures.
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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?
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Then the gates opened and they went through .
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We were going through , and I didn't care whom we woke to do it.
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He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you don't realise what he goes through .
up
▪
I remembered going up in a gilt elevator.
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The shade went up , came down again, and shot skyward.
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It's large a low level route, sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells.
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Despite an 11 percent increase in the 1995 California grape harvest, wine prices for consumers will still go up .
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Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow, cheerless stairs she'd last climbed before her interview.
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Then, it went up again when lighting was decreased.
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Susan and I looked at each other, eyebrows going up under our hoods.
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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.
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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?
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I think I'd gone to bed .
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When Fabia went to bed that night she felt as glum as she had when she had got up.
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When he went to bed he fell into a dead sleep.
college
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In the years that followed, Mary's eldest daughter went to Bible college to train for the mission field.
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C., this fall, went touring college campuses with her mom, &038;.
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You have to go to college don't you?
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I had forty cousins, and I was the only one of us who went to college .
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I went out to college to be smarter than them.
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She had a daughter about to go to college , and the tuition assistance plan was attractive.
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He went to agricultural college in Ireland and took a trip to New Zealand.
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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 .
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When I go to law schools to speak, I recognize them immediately.
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I went to Tintagel primary school a few months later.
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I went to graduate school so I could have a career teaching literature.
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We went to the same school - Geraldine was Head Girl and just about to leave and I was just beginning.
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Something must be going on at school .
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Now he faces the prospect of having to go to a school more than a hundred miles from his home.
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After that he would go to medical school and become a doctor who was also a handsome and talented musician and athlete.
things
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Sadly, things went terribly wrong.
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That was how it was with Master Yehudi: the better things went for us, the higher he set his sights.
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Not a chance, the way things are going .
▪
Do you ever get angry at some of the things that go on in election campaigns?
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They opened premises in the most prestigious part of the town. Things were going well, but old habits die hard.
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But things have only started going bad for him.
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The gamble had worked, when a dozen different things could have gone so terribly wrong.
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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 .
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But I think this will go a long way in determining where we are going.
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Marcos would seem to be prepared to go at least some way to meet Fox's proposals.
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They would have gone out of their way to say it, to shout it.
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Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way .
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Jim went out of his way for me a number of times the first couple of years he was here.
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But the conventions surrounding the drama itself usually go some way to counter this kind of misapprehension even in mediaeval times.
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He says that they more or less go their separate ways , Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.
■ VERB
keep
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You need to consider what consequences, what additional motivating events or rewards you can use to keep you going .
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But as the strikes kept going , the companies became frightened, because their authority had collapsed.
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Oh, I see: that's why we need to keep going .
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Enough to keep them going for three days.
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Hope that a cure will be found for the disease is what keeps his wife going , DelVecchio said.
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Apparently they would rather spend it on buying gold and dollars which is all that keeps them going .
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At one point, Bessie Hall tried to give up, but Misner persuaded her to keep going .
let
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Because Habib will not let her go to the health center, the children have not been immunized.
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The only requirements are patience, a willingness to learn and a readiness to let go of the habits of a lifetime.
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Cory Selliker, his eyes watering under the brim of his black Earnhardt cap, heard Marchman's advice to let go .
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Whatever else it may have wanted, the blue tent wouldn't let its precious oxygen go willingly.
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She drove very slowly as if shock and anxiety made it almost impossible for her to let the car go forward.
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Tilda, who had been holding her breath, let it go .
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He's really let himself go since my old Dad died.
want
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Dutra, ideologically hostile to multinational companies for health and environmental reasons, wants farmers to go organic.
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My dad wanted me to go and live with him.
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I wanted to go to school.
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She would feel like a spoiled child insisting that she wanted to go home.
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I want to go on to college.
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He didn't want to go into any other kind of films.
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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
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Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
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For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
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So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
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Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
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The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
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You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
(go) hand in hand
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Emotional thinking, the next step in emotional develop-ment, and attention also go hand in hand.
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Most of us were born in captivity where domestication and maturation work hand in hand.
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On the Internet modernity and pluralism go hand in hand.
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Stars and superstition just seem to go hand in hand.
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The child walking hand in hand with her father.
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The rationality of faith goes hand in hand with the mystery of faith.
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They go hand in hand because the momentum of population growth is so great.
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This, their last wish, was respected, and George and Joseph went to meet their maker hand in hand.
(go) out of business
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But most analysts agree that many health insurance companies would be driven out of business .
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Farmers and ranchers are still going out of business on the plains today.
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If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out of business .
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It was assumed that I might well put a customer or two out of business .
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Now that the war was over the Navy was, in effect, out of business , and it sought repossession.
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Rather, the independent-minded newspapers believe that the government now wants to drive them out of business .
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The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.
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The league was out of business after three seasons.
(right) from the word go
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At the County Ground, the wolves were on the prowl right from the word go.
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I knew it was a deliberate attempt from the word go to bring the band down.
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In Damage, from Josephine Hart's novel, he gets more or less everything wrong from the word go.
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It was a nightmare from the word go.
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The marriage was a disaster from the word go, although I didn't realize this until it was all over.
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They are reflexes built into the system from the word go.
(you) go, girl!
a going concern
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Although its assets are notionally worth £10 billion, their market value as a going concern must be far less.
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But you and I know the Soviet Union is a going concern.
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In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.
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Prides Hill Kennels was a going concern.
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The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.
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The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
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The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.
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To tell her that she and Piers were now a going concern?
a little (of sth) goes a long way
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A little ketchup goes a long way.
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Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.
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Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.
all systems go
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However, it was now all systems go for the future.
anything goes
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Don't worry about what to wear - anything goes at Ben's parties.
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With this season's fashions, anything goes.
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But it's a case of when you're down, anything goes.
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If anything goes wrong, she is there to alert the nurse.
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In the end humans will not adopt libertarian, anything goes values.
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The best thing about wraps is that anything goes.
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The world is ending, so anything goes.
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There is therefore the potential for personal distress if anything goes wrong.
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Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public.
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Whenever anything goes wrong, he blames it all on me.
as far as it goes
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What Kroll said was accurate, as far as it goes.
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My country has adopted individual rights in principle, but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.
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That's as far as it goes with me.
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That is encouraging as far as it goes.
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This self-defense strategy is fine as far as it goes, but it addresses only half of the prevention equation.
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Virtually all of it is right as far as it goes.
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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
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It is going great guns with special lines, the Fortress Alarm and the upgraded, fancy number, the Citadel.
be going places
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Alvin was part of it all now. Only 24, and he was going places .
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At only twenty-four, Ailey was going places - he was in a Broadway show.
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This company is clearly one that is going places .
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A test drive should convince you that Mazda are going places .
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I was going places , thinking and doing things I would never dream of in city civvies.
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I was really excited, believing that I was going places .
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Jonathon Morris, you will have gathered, is going places - and no one could be happier than the man himself.
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Only twenty-four, he was going places .
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Their Maria was going places , so he might as well keep her company.
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This woman, whose last performance was an extended run as a bartender, is going places .
be going spare
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So 10,000 posters are going spare , and the Tories are laughing.
be going strong
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The program is 20 years old this month and is still going strong .
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I told you I'd put things off until this practice is going strong .
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Over at Half House the party was going strong .
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We were going strong when the bedroom door opened.
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When I'd washed up, the ebb was going strong again.
be going to the dogs
be gone
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Look at Michelle - she's totally gone !
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Even the corrals had weeds in them, because the horses were gone .
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He did something unusual, but after 15 minutes he was gone .
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Mrs Doran was gone , Elsie was dead.
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One day, though, all this will be gone .
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One more such blow, I thought, face down in the sand, and I am gone .
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Ten minutes later Glover felt sure it would be all right if he looked to see if the chief was gone .
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The next year they are gone .
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Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever.
be gone on sb
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Arthur would be gone on the stroke of nine, and Ann too, if it was possible.
be good to go
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"Do you have all the hiking gear?" "Yeah, I'm good to go."
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I've got my shoes on and I'm good to go.
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We just need to get you a pair of skis and you're good to go.
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But if you're receiving money it would be better to go for the lump sum.
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He wandered a bit, and when it grew dark, he decided that it would be best to go home.
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If parking is difficult in a built-up area it may be better to go by public transport.
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If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone.
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It is best to go for fabrics which are stretch- and fade-resistant as well as stain- and mildew-resistant.
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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
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I was having a really hard time and I went down with Isabel and my dad.
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I went down with nothing but a. 45-caliber pistol and a flashlight.
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Looking back, it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble.
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Mr Black paid them off on all the equipment which went down with it, but which I know was not destroyed.
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Outside linebacker Mike Morton, making his first start since Rob Fredrickson went down with season-ending shoulder surgery, had eight tackles.
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There was a sudden space when the man at Riven's shoulder went down with a cry.
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These kids are 13, 14, and they wan na be down with somethin'.
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Who knows what went down with them?
be/go on (the) record as saying (that)
be/go on the fritz
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My TV is on the fritz .
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Their appliances go on the fritz .
be/go on the prowl (for sth/sb)
be/go on the wagon
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Sometimes I would go on the wagon for a few days then have a binge.
be/go round the bend
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But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
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I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
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If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend .
be/go/keep on about sth
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And they don't go on about his obvious flaws, like him being a doctor and having three dozen girlfriends.
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Everyone goes on about Cher's dresses, showing her navel.
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However, this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment.
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It sounded stupid the way she went on about loving the sea.
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It went on about 15 minutes too long.
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The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on about rubber.
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This made him wary as he went on about his chores and tried not to let Lucky see him.
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Why do I go on about this, I wonder.
be/go/keep on at sb
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A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men.
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But what's going on at No. 4 and No. 8 are free rides, nothing less.
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Funny stuff going on at the Olympics.
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He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up.
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I must say I was not totally happy about her going on at Yeo Davis, with me in the government.
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Something must be going on at school.
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There was some spitting going on at the end of the game.
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You used to go on at me about getting out.
be/run/go counter to sth
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A recipe would be counter to its nature.
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It ran counter to the ideas most Christians had held for well over a thousand years.
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It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.
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They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.
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This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.
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This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.
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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
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Paula was going hot and cold by now.
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She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.
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Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.
come/go along for the ride
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I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride .
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But do members just go along for the ride ?
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His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride .
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I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride .
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I went along for the ride .
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Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride .
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Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride .
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Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride .
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The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride .
come/go full circle
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After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.
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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle .
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Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.
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In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.
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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle .
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So we have come full circle .
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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle .
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Thus the research has come full circle .
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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle .
come/go under the hammer
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A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.
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Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
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As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.
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Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.
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In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.
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It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.
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Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.
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So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.
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The rest of his collection is going under the hammer .
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They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.
come/go with the territory
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I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.
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As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory .
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Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory .
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Death always went with the territory .
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Human rights abuses go with the territory .
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Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory .
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She just said she felt it went with the territory .
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Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory .
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The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory .
come/go/get along
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Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along .
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I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.
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In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along .
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Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.
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She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.
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She wants to go along too.
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The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.
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Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?
come/go/turn full circle
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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
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Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.
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Now the pattern has turned full circle.
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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.
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The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.
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Thus the research has come full circle.
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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
could go either way
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It could go either way, as we have seen in previous months of March.
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M., still could go either way.
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The latest opinion poll suggests the vote could go either way.
don't go mad
drop/go down like ninepins
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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
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As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer.
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As with the highly misleading phrase Stavrogin's Confession, critics and commentators behave as if they had got into a huddle .
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The meeting was chaotic, but at the end Mr Williams went into a huddle with a group of hauliers.
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They had gone into a huddle , obviously discussing their captives.
get/go nowhere
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Flo has been looking for a job but has gotten nowhere .
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But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere .
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He's got nowhere to go but forward.
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He goes nowhere in public without enough jewelry to supply a cotillion.
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I ain't going nowhere near them.
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I submit those stats and I get nowhere .
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Indeed, the trading profit went nowhere in 2000.
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Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere .
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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
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She said she was going out of her mind in California.
go (to) bye-byes
go Dutch (with sb)
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It's good to go dutch on power.
go a long way towards doing sth
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And Monday's game will go a long way towards determining Wright's future.
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For it was he who arranged the finance which went a long way towards putting the station on the air.
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Friedman's statement of the natural rate hypothesis went a long way towards reconciling such evidence with basic classical theory.
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In doing so it can go a long way towards lifting the depression which has afflicted too many teachers in recent years.
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Schema theory can go a long way towards explaining the sender's choice and arrangement of information in communication.
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The new, improved materials available have gone a long way towards extending the lifespan of today's flat roof.
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This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times.
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This will also go a long way towards preventing your neighbour complaining about the noise you make.
go about your business
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The street was filled with ordinary people going about their business .
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He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business , never using his influence to manipulate others.
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Normally it went about its business either on foot or in an arabeah, the horse-drawn cab distinctive to the city.
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Sara went about her business , more troubled than ever about Jenny's imminent arrival.
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The 49ers are counting on Deese to epitomize that professionalism as he goes about his business with Smith.
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They went about their business , expecting him to appear at any moment.
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While Deion Sanders received most of the pre-game ballyhoo, his bookend Brown went about his business with little or no fanfare.
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Yesterday, as the group of pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents.
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You have to laugh about it and go about your business .
go against the flow
go ahead
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"Can I have the sports section?" "Yeah, go ahead , I've read it."
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"Can I watch TV?'' "Sure, go ahead .''
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"Do you mind if I use your phone?" "Not at all - go ahead ."
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"Is it OK if I eat the last apple?" "Go right ahead ."
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"Is it OK if I smoke?'' "Sure, go ahead .''
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I'll go ahead and start the coffee.
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If you want to take a shower, just go ahead and take one.
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Even if Elizabeth went ahead and told Father, it was not certain that she would escape.
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Factory owners tried to stop govt. from going ahead & passing Acts but could not stop them seeing.
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I dared him to go ahead and do it.
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If you decide not to go ahead , just return the Policy within 15 days.
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If you want to buy a flamboyant pair of trousers, go ahead !
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Look, so little is known about her, just go ahead and get all the research done now.
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Reviews instances in which the Agency's activities have complicated matters or deterred developers from going ahead .
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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.
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But it was touch and go all the way .
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If you went all the way across the Lake of Dreams you'd end up in the Lake of Death.
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Imagine going all the way to Inverness for a pint of milk ... Maybe that was for the cat, too.
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She is very tough mentally and determined and should go all the way to a medal.
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The chair went all the way back, folded out, so his feet were out.
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The sun went all the way down and I was standing in the purple darkness.
go ape
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Joe went ape when he found out.
go apeshit
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Four Negro GIs went apeshit striking matches on sleek bottoms.
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Ricky would go apeshit if anything happened to Wayne.
go astray
▪
The form you mailed must have gone astray .
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The street is filled with teenagers who have gone astray .
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I enclose a copy in case the original has gone astray .
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It could be that fewer of those bright ideas will go astray .
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It wasn't too windy, but windy enough to cause the occasional shot to go astray .
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Perhaps the most famous example of a re-creation gone astray took place in July 1989.
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She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray .
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The problem is sometimes that parts go astray , which makes it impossible to reassemble the file.
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To stop Tootle from going astray , the townspeople get together and conceive ofa clever plan, in which they all participate.
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We should not be comforted by allowing ourselves to regard Noam Friedman et al. as disturbed individuals who have gone astray .
go awry
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Your best financial plans can sometimes go awry .
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But part of its appeal, too, is a description of many translations gone awry .
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If something goes awry , like a Cabinet revolt, the government falls and new elections are held.
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It solaced him to know that he had an alternate plan if things went awry .
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Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day, but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend.
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She had done her utmost to excite, please, soothe, serve; yet everything had gone awry .
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Sweet expectancy appeared on the young faces in the children's band and the music went awry .
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Their policies on devolution seemed to be going awry .
go ballistic
go bananas
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Dad will go bananas when he sees this.
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Roy's customers think the council has gone bananas .
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Victor will go bananas , and Rachel will think I got laid.
go bang
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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
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Tim's business went belly up in 1993.
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Cooke won a settlement so big that the label went belly up.
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Lehman Brothers eventually went belly up.
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Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
go berserk
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She went berserk and began shouting at everybody on the platform.
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The guy just went totally berserk and started hitting me.
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When they tried to arrest him, he suddenly went berserk .
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But eight days after this fire went berserk , there are no serious injuries.
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But then Munter goes over the edge, sounding like a Weight Watchers leader gone berserk .
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Converse was commencing another glide when Smitty went berserk .
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He offered to show me, but Alain nearly went berserk and then we got interrupted.
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He wasn't proud of the ability to go berserk because it meant loss of control.
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No, I was a sort of insane ghetto personality who got off on the written word, and went berserk .
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On the table in the front of the room was a telephone, which rang whenever the bond market went berserk .
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She's probably lived such a repressed life she goes berserk when she comes out to the West Indies.
go blank
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I just went blank and couldn't remember his name for a minute.
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Suddenly the screen went blank .
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I remember standing there getting red in the face and my mind going blank .
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It was as if his mind had gone blank or had become a golden mind, as Larry's had.
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Mine start when I go blank .
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My mind went blank with grief and despair.
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The screen went blank , unlike his mind.
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We sat beside him and encouraged him when he stumbled or went blank .
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When she asked Karen a question, even though Karen knew the answer her mind immediately went blank .
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Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper?
go blue
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Celia came down holding the baby, who had gone blue and stopped breathing.
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Do not put the bandage on too tight or you may find your fingers or toes going blue through lack of circulation.
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I could have threatened to hold my breath until I went blue .
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Strictly speaking, yes, it would tend to go blue ever so slightly.
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The baby boy went blue after his lungs became blocked.
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You rolled around, went blue and your eyes shot up into your head.
go broke
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A lot of small businesses went broke during the recession.
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And once you have so many farmers going broke , the ripple effect starts.
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Bethlehem went broke a year later, but a reissue set appeared 20 years later.
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He could also go broke - last year, farm incomes fell by 25 percent.
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Mr Menem applied such nonsense in the state of La Rioja, where he is governor; it has gone broke .
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Ninety-nine out of a hundred wildcatters went broke or crazy or both and abandoned their last asteroid with the equipment in situ.
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Project the numbers forward and government simply goes broke .
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They are delightful students, but we take them because we'd go broke if we didn't.
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Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke .
go bust
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About 60,000 business go bust each year in the United States.
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Most of the steel factories around here went bust in the 1980s.
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The supermarket isn't there any more. They went bust ages ago.
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But when the Thatcher boom went bust Sugar's business declined with it - and so did Amstrad's market rating.
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Even when certain licensed dealers have survived, the firms in which they were making markets have gone bust .
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His haulage business went bust and he owes £120,000 on a semi in New Denham, Bucks, now worth only £80,000.
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I think I fancy a well-paid job with a firm that won't go bust .
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Last year they faced uncertainty over their jobs when the Lewis's group went bust and called in the receivers.
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Now the process has reached crisis point: the organization is about to go bust .
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Then it really went bust , flat, dead bust, in the l920s.
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When competitors pull out, get taken over or go bust , fares go up.
go by the board
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And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse, the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board .
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Health, education, transport and other welfare spending goes by the board .
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Meanwhile, there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life.
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Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes.
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Scientific batsmanship goes by the board .
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Their principles have gone by the board .
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We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.
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We used to play golf, but went by the board when he moved.
go by the rulebook
go cap in hand (to sb)
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Advertisers used to go to museums, cap in hand, to ask permission to use a painting for an advertisement.
go commando
go crazy
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I didn't need to go crazy .
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My boss told me to leave, and 1 went crazy .
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The Star Council had gone crazy .
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The world was going crazy and, or so it seemed, Trumptonshire would have none of it.
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They went crazy , making all that money.
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To have it happen here, see the fans go crazy .
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You go crazy with the frustration and throw a bad punch and take his counter in your mouth or solar plexus.
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You have to maintain a balance or else you go crazy .
go down a treat
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It seems to be going down a treat .
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It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
go down a/this road
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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
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The Mimosa is going down the pan faster than Dynorod could.
go down the plughole
go down the tubes
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The who experiment could go down the tubes .
go downhill
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After he lost his job, things went downhill .
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I said I didn't like baseball, and the interview went downhill from then on.
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Moving in together was a mistake, and things rapidly went downhill .
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When things started to go downhill , Kyle began looking for another job.
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After that, things started to go downhill .
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Cruel observers may remark that he's been going downhill ever since.
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Life seems to have gone downhill since the younger one was born.
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Monta o accuses the city of deliberately forcing the neighborhood to go downhill , the better to justify a future land grab.
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The evening had gone downhill since she asked about the coat.
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The whole thing is going downhill .
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Things have been going downhill since the kitchen help moved into the classroom.
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You feel the situation is going downhill .
go easy on sb
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Go easy on Peter - he's having a hard time at school.
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After that, go easy on salty foods such as crisps, bacon, cheese and salted nuts.
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And go easy on the sugar, salt and alcohol.
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Fred must go easy on his eyes.
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He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.
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We can go easy on him with the questions, but I want Nate to be impressed.
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We went easy on Baker and gave him the benefit of the doubt.
go easy on/with sth
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Go easy on the cheese - it has a lot of fat.
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After that, go easy on salty foods such as crisps, bacon, cheese and salted nuts.
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And go easy on the sugar, salt and alcohol.
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Fred must go easy on his eyes.
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He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.
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We can go easy on him with the questions, but I want Nate to be impressed.
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We went easy on Baker and gave him the benefit of the doubt.
go for broke
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Jacobsen went for broke on the last nine holes and won the tournament.
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In games, I usually go for broke . 12.
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So he felt free to go for broke .
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So, Major may be going for broke by breaking with precedent.
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This is not a show you can skimp on, and thankfully director Damian Cruden goes for broke .
go for the jugular
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A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices.
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And not that many women really feel comfortable going for the jugular .
go forward to/into
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Finally she left her seat and went forward to accept the Lord, leaving her Bible on the seat.
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Lily went forward to the wings and looked at the set.
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Quietly she went forward to the edge of the trees.
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Rex must have gone forward to deal with the foresail.
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Smiling shyly, she went forward to meet them.
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Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib.
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When, later in the service, she went forward to accept the Lord, what did she think she was accepting?
go from bad to worse
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The rail service has gone from bad to worse since it was privatised.
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The schools have gone from bad to worse in this area.
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Things went from bad to worse, and soon the pair were barely talking to each other.
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As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.
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It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.
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Matters continued to go from bad to worse.
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Matters went from bad to worse.
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On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse.
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That they are going from bad to worse.
go from bad to worse
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As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.
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It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.
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Matters continued to go from bad to worse .
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Matters went from bad to worse .
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On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse .
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That they are going from bad to worse .
go from strength to strength
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As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength.
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But now they have gone, the story line has gone from strength to strength.
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On its own terms, meanwhile, the new philology went from strength to strength.
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Ride are just going from strength to strength - one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment.
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The railcoaches however, went from strength to strength and became the work-horses of the Blackpool system.
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We can't help but go from strength to strength.
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While the company goes from strength to strength, the union claims, its employees are losing out.
go funny
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And his eyes went funny just as he was about to change personalities.
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I tend to sit there going funny colours.
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My eyes go funny after a bit, so I look at summat else.
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Then came the road where her knees went funny .
go halves (on sth)
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Do you want to go halves on a pizza?
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He generously agrees to go halves on you.
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She'd promised to go halves with him if he got anywhere in his negotiations.
go halves (with sb)
go haywire
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My computer has gone haywire again.
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And consider buying the same set-up as a friend so you have some one to lean on when things go haywire .
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Everything would go haywire if he saw her.
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If something goes haywire , it should be fairly easy to isolate the offending software.
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Until recently geophysicists thought that at this low point the magnetic field would also go haywire .
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When compression software really goes haywire , you can lose everything on your hard disk.
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With khaki behind the counter, the prices went haywire .
go head to head with sb
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Jim finally went head to head with his boss.
go hog wild
go hot and cold
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Paula was going hot and cold by now.
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She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.
go hungry
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Families went hungry , lost nine months of income, and for what, really?
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Frankie had learned to prepare in advance for those days and nights when he might otherwise go hungry .
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It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.
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Many people had lost everything they owned in the floods and many were now going hungry , he said.
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Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry .
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No-one is allowed to go hungry .
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She has never gone hungry , suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.
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Without welfare benefits, many may become homeless, others will go hungry .
go hunting
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And there were many who wondered why Holy Trinity had to go hunting for causes so far from home.
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Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
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Oh my, I think we're going hunting .
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Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries, he would go home first.
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Sumal, her sister, who was not at all beautiful, dressed like a man and loved to go hunting .
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The group members then went hunting for another buyer, finally persuading media giant Gannett Co. to buy their option.
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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
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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
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After years of working for a big company, I decided to go it alone .
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Sayles hasn't regretted his decision to go it alone as a filmmaker.
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The response to our proposal was lukewarm, so we felt we had to go it alone .
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When it comes to parenthood, more and more women are deciding to go it alone .
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As much as he can, he tries to go it alone .
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But County Auctions, a big operation with centres at Wooler and Newcastle, was always likely to go it alone .
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Do not try to go it alone - everything you do will be enhanced by the company of another.
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He knew that each brought something important to the relationship, but that neither could go it alone .
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If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone .
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Many of them do not have the capital or a big enough infrastructure to go it alone , he said.
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No single community could go it alone .
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That was when Brian decided to go it alone , sourcing the units and adapting them himself.
go live
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Before you rush to subscribe, however, it's only the phone arm of the service that has gone live .
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Care management goes live in April 1993 but is still poorly rehearsed and its performance may yet disappoint.
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On 12 January the Midland electrification between Luton and Bedford went live in preparation for driver-only training. 1982.
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The new site was due to go live at the end of June and promised new personalisation features.
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The new system went live earlier this year.
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The service, CallNet0800, goes live on 1 November.
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Undeterred, Gandhi declared he would go live in a hut in the untouchable quarter.
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We went live on air by telephone for about ten minutes, at about 8.25 am.
go loopy
go mental
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Back home, the missus is going mental and your dinner's in the dustbin.
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We're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental .
go native
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Austen has been living in Papua New Guinea so long he's gone native .
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There would be no going native at Zhanjiang.
go nuts
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But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen.
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Every time Greene did something he went nuts , throwing his body around the field like a one-man Mardi Gras.
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It was pure magic and Philadelphia fans went nuts .
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Most of the walls are really light panels, so we don't go nuts from the dark.
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My classmate and I thought he had gone nuts .
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So don't go nuts - use those leftovers in the following recipes.
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The fans go nuts , stomping so loudly that they drown out the announcer.
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What if this man of yours just went nuts for no reason at all?
go off at a tangent
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As for going off at tangents , my dear, I do it myself, hormone balance not withstanding.
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Loretta's mind went off at a tangent .
go off at the deep end
go off half cocked
go off the boil
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Even extortion has gone off the boil .
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I knew as soon as I wrote it down I'd go off the boil .
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Now it appears to have gone off the boil .
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The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer.
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We're letting the kettle go off the boil .
go off the rails
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But it was the news pages that had really gone off the rails .
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Has something gone off the rails here?
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Things started to go off the rails , however, with the Fiat Multipla.
go on forever
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The train just seemed to go on forever .
go on the block
go on the offensive
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But before Adamowski could get his campaign under way, Daley threw him off balance by going on the offensive .
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Hastily revising his plans for my career, he settled us into our Cape Cod retreat and went on the offensive .
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If she could find somewhere dry, she would be able to go on the offensive .
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So she did not need to go on the offensive and was not required to fight.
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Temperamentally unsuited for compromise, Tatum went on the offensive .
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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)
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Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better .
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But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
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Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
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Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
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Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better .
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She goes one better than last year.
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The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
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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
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Also by definition, of course, the conventional measures of company valuation went out of the window .
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But that system has long since gone out the window .
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Design faults meant that each new station required major alterations; any hope of a production line quickly went out the window .
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Douglas went out the window when they turned on him.
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If they are barred from this, cost control could go out of the window .
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Once they sniffed victory caution went out of the window .
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Regular-season stuff goes out the window .
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When it hit, tradition went out the window , taking with it a great many careers.
go out of your mind
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I'm with the kids all day, and I'm starting to feel like I'm losing my mind .
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If I have to wait in one more line, I'm going to go out of my mind .
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She said she was going out of her mind in California.
go out of your way to do sth
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Jennifer knew what a difficult time I was having, and went out of her way to be friendly.
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They went out of their way to make me feel welcome.
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When Annie arrived, Harriman went out of his way to make life pleasant for her.
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And the recording industry is going out of its way to help.
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How to be compassionate to their pain and go out of their way to help them?
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Neither do they go out of their way to look for targets, human or otherwise.
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So empty, in fact, that the United States seemed to go out of its way to insult Ismail.
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This is the second time to-night she has gone out of her way to be sensitive to Oregon.
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To register his annoyance, he seemed to go out of his way to ignore us.
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We are going out of our way to help him with it.
go over sb's head
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The more emotional scenes go right over the kids' heads .
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Are we going to get Blagg or do we go over your head ?
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Could he go over the heads of Congress and get the country behind him?
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He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors.
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His enormous arm went over Rory's head , the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.
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Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head .
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They worried that the experienced subordinate would go over their head and gain support from their superiors.
go overboard
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Don't you think you went a little overboard on the decorations?
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Although Levin sometimes goes overboard with jokes, his breezy, slightly irreverent tone is a welcome one.
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I decided to go overboard with processors and connected three digital multi-effects units and a mono delay.
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It was feared he'd gone overboard and air and sea search was launched.
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My problem is, I have a tendency to go overboard with compliments.
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Then more cans of the gas, so carefully loaded the day before, went overboard .
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They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard .
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You are demonstrating to them how to recognize, name and communicate their feelings without going overboard .
go pear-shaped
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Meg plays Alice, a cheerful hippy in the minutes before everything goes pear-shaped .
go phut
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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
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Do you have to go potty ?
go public
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Several biotech companies went public this year.
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The chairman didn't want to go public with the information.
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After going public at 28, Netscape closed the year at 139.
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In most cases, though, prices head south as soon as they've gone public .
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In the last three months of 1990, the Tribune Company recorded its first quarterly loss since going public in 1983.
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Most had by then gone public , but still controlled their firms.
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One of the changes was establishing a partnership committee to evaluate whether to go public .
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Police went public after police cars were rammed and officers injured.
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The stock, accounting for splits since the firm went public in 1986, has appreciated by 340 percent.
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What better time is there to go public ?
go sb's way
go short (of sth)
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But Jude is used to going short of beauty sleep-although it doesn't show.
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Debbie's husband would have cared if he had gone short , oh yes.
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More of the world-beating copies are on sale today in areas that went short .
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Since these are fairly cheap to buy and easy to prepare, the elderly rarely go short of them.
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So whether you're visiting Perth or Penzance, you need never go short of cash.
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That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days.
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The stroke went short and choppy.
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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
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But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite.
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Funding for public works, including community-based arts projects, went some way towards alleviating mass unemployment.
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However, the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them.
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It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.
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Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness.
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The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly.
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This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease.
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Will he go some way towards reviewing the process?
go south
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After four years, their relationship began to go south .
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Arthur chose Brewyn, a man he could be certain of, then went south to Caerleon well content.
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But first he wanted to go south .
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His playing time evaporated until just before the break and his numbers also went south .
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I must get to the station, go south again.
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If so, go south about three miles to Bunker Hill Road.
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Motorola stock has been going south since it reached a record 82 1 / 2 last Sept. 29.
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The Marauders going south to play football?
go spare
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I often ring at this time of the night for a chat, it helps to stop me from going spare .
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Mrs Mangle would be mortified, Harold horrified ... and Scott would go spare .
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One spare nut on a table may not seem much of an asset, but 10,000 nuts going spare are a liability.
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So 10,000 posters are going spare , and the Tories are laughing.
go stag
go steady (with sb)
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I could really go for him in a big way, but he's going steady with the staff nurse on Rainbow.
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If you can't, it's as well you're not going steady .
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Maybe they don't talk about going steady any more, he thought.
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Somehow, the mention of marriage has strained even the sweet pleasure we found in going steady .
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Tell her you needed time with the idea of going steady , and you need time with this.
go stellar
go straight
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He's been going straight for about six months now.
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Tony's been trying to go straight for about six months.
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You can't expect these people to go straight when no one's ever going to give them a job.
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He has been born into this world and gone straight to hell.
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He went straight up to Oxford Street and bought a tracksuit.
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It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital, and they went straight to Jack's barn.
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Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole.
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Left to our own devices, we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes.
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When she came back she avoided his look and went straight to a small table next to the stove.
go swimmingly
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Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before.
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Things were going swimmingly , what with remarkably honest plumbers, electricians and carpenters fixing up my new home.
go the (full) distance
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Along the way pilots take photographs of certain landmarks to prove they've gone the distance .
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But since the State is unwilling to go the distance alone, rest assured his answer will be no.
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Either can go the distance , but one is ever-so-much more delightful.
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For those who went the distance it was time to reflect on their achievement.
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Physically the Decimax should go the distance , too.
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Steve Kemp and I became involved in a marathon match which went the full distance .
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Together, they go the distance .
go the extra mile
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The President vowed to go the extra mile for peace in the region.
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All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances.
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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
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We decided to go whole hog and stay at the Hilton.
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And when you've claimed that much land, why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well.
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Are they about kissing, petting or going the whole hog , as one might say?
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Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this.
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He reckoned now he was in, he might as well go the whole hog .
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Mortified by the twist in his sobriety, George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society.
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Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages.
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The Siemens display goes the whole hog .
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You could hire taxis, or go the whole hog and hire a chauffeur-driven car for the day.
go the whole hog
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And when you've claimed that much land, why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well.
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Are they about kissing, petting or going the whole hog, as one might say?
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Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this.
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He reckoned now he was in, he might as well go the whole hog.
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Mortified by the twist in his sobriety, George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society.
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Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages.
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The Siemens display goes the whole hog.
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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)
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I would have gone through fire for Peter Docherty.
go through the floor
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In the past few years, stock prices have gone through the floor .
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Last year, sales went through the floor .
go through the mill
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Busiack has been through the mill with these federal investigators.
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Part of the Council's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation.
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We went through the mill together, Franklin.
go through the motions (of doing sth)
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But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works.
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Everybody said the right thing; everybody went through the motions the way they should.
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Still others go through the motions but without any real desire to improve the relationship.
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The authorities occasionally go through the motions of clamping down.
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To Harry, Jack looked like a man going through the motions .
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Too many students are going through the motions without any significant engagement in learning.
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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
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Following news of increased profits, the company's share price went through the roof .
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Put that back before Dad sees you and hits the roof !
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Sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses went through the roof after Tom Cruise wore them in 'Risky Business'.
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And the price is going through the roof .
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He could predict business to go through the roof .
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Inflation had accelerated and commodity prices had gone through the roof .
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No wonder inflation is going through the roof and our environment ends up choked with litter.
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Sales of those products went through the roof .
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The second day went through the roof with a whopping 573,604.
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They criticise the poll tax, but when they were in office the rates went through the roof .
go through the wringer
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His ex-wife really put Barry through the wringer .
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Before being reunited with his 14-year-old wife and baby, Pedro Sotelo went through the wringer Thursday.
go through your paces
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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.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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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
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All the village had gone to earth .
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He'd go to earth and stay there till dark.
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Not much doubt he slipped in there and went to earth in the shed, for some purpose of his own.
go to ground
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After flying into a military airport in a private jet, he went to ground .
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Also they are very severe on the second man going to ground .
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I'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence.
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Let any crook try to find me, I said to myself, when I go to ground in Uulaa-la.
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The dead man's brother has gone to ground .
go to hell and back
go to hell in a handbasket
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The education system in this state has gone to hell in a handbasket.
go to hell!
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Don't answer the phone - he can go to hell !
go to law
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At the time, she was intending to go to law school with a view to taking over her father's law firm.
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I might go to law school next year, and I wanted to find out if I liked it.
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Indeed, they are going to law school, too.
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Merrill plans to work for a year, perhaps abroad, and then go to law school.
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So the museum has gone to law to get the pictures back.
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So we've been left with no other avenue but to go to law .
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Well, what else could I do with a history and humanities interest outside of teach or go to law school?
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When I go to law schools to speak, I recognize them immediately.
go to pieces
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I was so nervous in my driving test I just went to pieces .
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Keeping busy was the only thing that kept her from going to pieces during the divorce.
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When they lost the family business, Liz went to pieces .
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He was going to pieces inside, just as Lorton intended, and he didn't like it.
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I almost went to pieces in that room.
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It seems he goes to pieces in a crisis, then.
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That's perhaps why things began to go to pieces when the boy was born.
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The ship broke in half, tumbled over the precipice, and went to pieces .
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With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces , disintegrate, and become re-sorts of vice and disease.
go to pot
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My God, they've really let the house go to pot .
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Birth then becomes difficult and painful and, of course, the economics of the whole operation goes to pot .
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Her relationship with the boy has gone to pot lately.
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Many people's good intentions go to pot as Ian Cocking does the work virtually single handed.
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Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot .
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The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle's started purchasing from outside suppliers.
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There was another moneymaking scheme gone to pot .
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This whole village has gone to pots .
go to press
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The May issue was ready to go to press when the magazine closed down.
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Although correct at the time of going to press , the programme is subject to amendment.
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As we went to press more than 200,000 copies had already been sold.
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At the time this book was going to press , I had not yet been able to undertake further investigations.
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Ed - Sorry the photos were not available at time of going to press due to Christmas printing deadlines.
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However, as we went to press they were still sorting out what stays and what goes.
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Prices correct at time of going to press .
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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
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He's let his father's old house go to rack and ruin.
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It seems that the government is prepared to let all our hospitals and schools go to rack and ruin.
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The old farmhouse had gone to rack and ruin.
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First they let the house go to rack and ruin, then the garden; now they were sheltering hippies.
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Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin.
go to sb's head
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Dave really let his promotion go to his head .
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The wine went straight to my head .
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A rush of blood went to Rosheen's head as the infection he had implanted did its work.
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At ten o'clock they went to the tunnel head .
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He went to the head in the middle of the night to study the fluid, a dreadful yellowish drip.
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I think your Nobel Prize has gone to your head .
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Production went to his head and thrilled his sleepless nerves like liquor or women on a Saturday night.
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She was a looker, that one, and I guess it went to her head .
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They were floundering chest-deep, and Riven went to Madra's head , helping to hold it above the water.
go to sleep
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Are you two going to stop talking and go to sleep ?
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Can you stop leaning on me please? My arm's gone to sleep .
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He lay on the sofa and pretended to go to sleep .
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I looked over at Dave, but he had gone to sleep .
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If I wake up in the night, it takes me ages to go back to sleep .
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Every time I go to sleep I don't know what's gon na happen.
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He went to sleep as he stood there, clutching his glass, his forehead resting on the windowpane.
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I did just as he suggested, and put the note in his mailbox that night, and went to sleep .
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I read and went to sleep .
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Oh, you did not go to sleep as directed, at eight?
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The man stepped back into the centre of the circle, and seemed almost to go to sleep .
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They did not expect to get home, says the poet; still, they went to sleep .
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You go upstairs and read Campbell a story before she goes to sleep .
go to some/great/any lengths (to do sth)
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Both want to steal the show and they are going to great lengths to do it.
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Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.
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Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.
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George Bush went to great lengths to keep out of his way on the campaign trail.
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The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery.
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When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
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Who knows whether Oppenheimer went to any lengths to find anyone who had anything good to say about Stewart.
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Yet Phillips climbed the wall anyway, went to great lengths to hurt his ex-girlfriend.
go to the bad
go to the country
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And yet Callaghan very nearly did go to the country late in 1978.
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Attlee went to the country over the issue and lost the general election of October 1951.
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I've had my orders. l m going to the country for a while, to merry Mytchett Place.
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Individuals possess conveyances to go to the country .
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So, anyway, I went to the country .
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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
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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
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The people of Houston will go to the polls next week to elect a new mayor.
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We're trying to encourage young people to go to the polls .
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With only two days left before France goes to the polls , all parties are campaigning hard.
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A week after that, three big Midwestern states hold primaries, and on March 26, Californians go to the polls .
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As they go to the polls the voters know what package of compromises they are voting for.
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If so, on past form only a third of the electorate will bother to go to the polls .
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In June 1983, Margaret Thatcher went to the polls for the second time.
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Next week, they go to the polls in a presidential election that should indicate where their sympathies lie.
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Republican voters will go to the polls for four hours to select the first batch of delegates of the presidential primary season.
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So people go to the polls convinced their only choice is the lesser of two evils.
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This Tuesday, August 5, voters will go to the polls to accept or reject the proposed charter.
go to the toilet
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Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own.
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I couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet and they always came and changed me.
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I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them on to the other side of the hall.
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Over the next day and a half she only left the room twice to go to the toilet .
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The old man got up to go to the toilet again.
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Then, next time you go to the toilet , try this stop test half way through emptying your bladder.
go to the wall
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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 .
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Over 300 small firms have gone to the wall in the past year.
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In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.
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It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall .
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Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination.
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Small livestock farmers have gone to the wall in their thousands.
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Some farmers did go to the wall , but far fewer than predicted.
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The trades unionist suspects that in competitive capitalism the weak go to the wall .
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Those who could stand the pace flourished; those who could not went to the wall .
go to town (on sth)
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Sandy went to town on the displays.
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Bénéteau went to town in their usual impressive way; it is, after all, their home patch.
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Bury that snout in Haagen-Dasz and go to town !
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In the United States of the early 1940s, women still donned hats and gloves to go to town .
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Over another cup of coffee we made plans to go to town .
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This month he goes to town on forms.
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When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her.
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Windows give you a chance to go to town .
go to waste
▪
Don't let all this food go to waste .
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If no one else wants this, I'll eat it -- I hate to see good food go to waste .
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Local produce often goes to waste because people prefer to buy imported food.
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We can't let all our hard work go to waste .
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And all that effort went to waste .
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Every part of the animal was used and nothing went to waste .
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However, they needn't go to waste .
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I hate to see them go to waste .
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I still had tickets to use for this season, and now those will just go to waste .
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Oh, no, she resolved, not twice; she wasn't going to waste another year of her life!
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She wasn't going to waste her strength.
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Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.
go too far
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Investors are concerned that real estate inflation has gone too far .
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The court ruled that the police went too far when they handcuffed Rooney to a chair.
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Has he gone too far out of bounds to get back on course?
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I can only hope I am proved wrong: things have gone too far to turn back the tide.
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She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon.
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Surely a barber didn't hold his client in this way, was he perhaps going too far ?
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Their elders in Linea 13 try to keep them from going too far .
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They never went too far out.
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They want to go too far .
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We have already gone too far .
go underground
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Denkins went underground to escape police.
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A few days later, Valenzuela went underground .
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But some of the activity has gone underground .
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Delvalle went underground but continued to be recognized by the United States.
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Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist.
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If company policies are too stringent or punitive, couples simply go underground .
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Instead of changing its policies, however, the government went underground .
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Like the Sleepers of Ephesus, ideas go underground for a few centuries to re-emerge when times are more propitious.
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The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground .
go unpunished
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Before 1870, a husband could legally go unpunished for beating his wife.
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Guards involved in drug deals went unpunished .
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Hate crimes will not be tolerated and will not go unpunished .
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At this point in development, children typically believe that a lie is wrong even if it goes unpunished .
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But no good deed goes unpunished in noire crime stories.
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In Port-au-Prince there are fears that Dominique's murder, like the deaths of so many others, will go unpunished .
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It looked a harsh decision, especially when the referee allowed late tackles to go unpunished .
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Middlesex have twice had to carpet Ramprakash this season after astonishing flare-ups and another incident went unpunished .
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Numerous violations of constitutional rights went unpunished during the thirties.
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Of course, when it comes to oligarchies and bureaucracies, no good deed goes unpunished .
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Your pride won't go unpunished .
go up in flames/burst into flames
go up in smoke
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After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke .
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Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke .
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For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke .
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If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke ?
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Its mosque went up in smoke .
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Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke , outraged many.
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That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.
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Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke .
go up/come down in the world
go walkabout
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I thought I'd just go walkabout and see what I can dig up.
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Our man's gone walkabout for reasons of his own.
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Prunella was right - why the fuss just because Blythe had gone walkabout ?
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You know that when a black fella dies the whole family moves out of the house and goes walkabout .
go west
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But Helper had gone West in the decade before the Civil War.
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But she was quiet and respectful, and she was eager to go West .
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It goes west along the river Humber before passing north around the western edge of the Yorkshire Wolds.
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Jack went west for a holiday in the summer of 1954 while he contemplated his future.
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The full quota of how many and whose scripts went west in this rethink will probably never be known.
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William did not go West on an existential errand; the end of his journey was known.
go wild
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The stock market went wild today.
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When Jordan's picture flashed on the screen, the crowd went wild .
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Apparently Maggie is going wild trying to find out who is responsible for seasonal changes.
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But the flashing lights pass straight through, on to some real emergency, and the crowd goes wild .
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No, they wouldn't: they'd go wild .
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Soon-Yi told friends that Mia went wild after finding nude photos of her in film-maker Allen's Manhattan apartment.
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Southampton went wild when the Friendship came into view.
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The borough of Brooklyn went wild , turning into one long block party.
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Use the traditional pink and white marshmallows or go wild with lots of assorted shapes and colours.
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Well, by that time it was going on the screen, and then the markets went wild .
go with a swing
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In the evening, after the first stiffness wore off and charades were introduced, the party went with a swing .
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Now he was in an excellent mood and the party began to go with a swing .
go with the flow
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If you want to stay sane, just go with the flow .
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Chretien is an opportunist who goes with the flow .
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Here she is pushed and pulled, directed and redirected, forced to go with the flow of the mob.
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In high school, I went with the flow .
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It feels like freedom: I can go with the flow .
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Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman.
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Relax - and go with the flow .
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Then allow yourself to be carried gently downstream, going with the flow .
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Whereas I seek to go with the flow .
go wrong
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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 .
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If you follow the easy step-by-step instructions, you really can't go wrong .
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It was soon after the birth of their first child that their relationship started to go wrong .
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Only the two of you know what went wrong .
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The experiment went wrong when the chemicals combined to form a poisonous gas.
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The rescue attempt went badly wrong when the building collapsed.
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But it all went wrong when, some 15 years ago, he flunked math and didn't get into college.
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If not, what went wrong ?
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In case anything went wrong , I was prepared to make a dash for Armstrong.
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It is not that juries occasionally go wrong .
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It was obvious that much could go wrong .
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John Hill's son says he's not been given the full facts about what went wrong .
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Research shows that many injured patients simply want to find out what went wrong .
go your own way
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After that if you want to be organised, you can be - or alternatively you can go your own way .
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But enough to allow you to go your own way .
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I want to go my own way , alone.
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If Cultural Studies goes its own way , what happens to what is left?
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Or, of course, you can go your own way .
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Speech goes its own way , and speakers drift farther than ever from a literary standard.
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The herd ad is intended to show that the company goes its own way in investing.
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The pairs of glassy eyes no longer corresponded, in death they broke ranks, each distended eye gone its own way .
go your separate ways
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After this they go their separate ways.
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He says that they more or less go their separate ways, Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.
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In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.
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Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.
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Or would they go their separate ways, each ruling an independent principality?
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She takes it up, the partners disengage and go their separate ways.
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They were too readily allowed to go their separate ways.
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We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards.
go/be beyond (all) reason
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Their demands go beyond all reason .
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But by this time Maidstone was beyond all reason .
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He is beyond reason , Diniz.
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It was beyond all reason that Hal, who had performed flawlessly for so long, should suddenly turn assassin.
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Their condition is beyond reason , but it is certainly not, as they believe, beyond cure.
go/be out like a light
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She was out like a light , as soon as we put her in bed.
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A minute later he went out like a light .
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Either it was the brandy or it was the heat, but she went out like a light .
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I went out like a light .
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Something hit me on the back of the head, here, and I went out like a light .
go/be out of use
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The guns are out of use and that is what matters.
go/come along
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A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.
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Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.
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If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along .
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Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
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Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.
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So I agreed to go along .
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The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.
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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
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We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire .
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In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire .
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It is down to the wire .
go/get/be beyond a joke
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The condition of Tam's leather jacket had got beyond a joke .
go/move downmarket
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The Opera House specialised in drama for nine years - and then went downmarket .
go/run around in circles
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We've got to solve the problem instead of running around in circles , writing letters that never get answered.
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I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
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She jumps up and down and runs around in circles .
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That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.
go/run like clockwork
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A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
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And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork .
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Sometimes it ran like clockwork , sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
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Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork .
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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
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And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly.
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At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed .
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Formerly owned by Arthur Siegel, it had since gone to seed .
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Mark knows he has allowed himself to go to seed a bit.
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She looked middle-aged, overdressed, a show-girl gone to seed .
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The rest of the College, like the theatre, seems in Paul Pry's day to have run to seed .
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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
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I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .
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Over and over it ran through his mind .
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Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?
go/turn over sth in your mind
go/walk down the aisle
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As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles.
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He wanted to walk down the aisle with you and give you away to your young man.
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Her mouth turned up at the corners, Mavis walked down the aisle with Walter.
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Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle .
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Resplendent in red, she walks down the aisle on the arm of the Rev.
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The wedding was off, because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit!
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They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers.
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Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.
gone for a burton
hard going
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Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going.
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But getting to be one of these fashionable high-flying image makers with a top salary is hard going.
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I don't mind it, but it's pretty hard going to sleep with this banging going on.
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Much of it was hard going, especially in the early parts.
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Robbie's sandals were low-heeled, but even so she found the pace hard going.
have a good thing going
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They've got a good thing going with that little business of theirs.
have a lot going for you
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With her brains and good looks, she certainly has a lot going for her.
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Human travel agents, paper guidebooks and newspaper ads still have a lot going for them.
have everything going for you
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Barry had everything going for him -- charm, looks, intelligence, but still he was unemployed.
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Dan seemed to have everything going for him in college.
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She was bright and pretty and had everything going for her.
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It seems to have everything going for it.
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The events have everything going for them.
heavy going
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Although she usually got on well with children, she found Hilary heavy going .
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Eoin Young's Diary is heavy going .
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He reports that a trip to Catterick Camp to set up rope ladders on the assault course was heavy going .
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Like the writing of all books there are times of great enthusiasm, of heavy going and quite often real blockage.
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Mwangaza was dull and heavy going .
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Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky's Sonata, which is distinctly heavy going .
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The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity.
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The resulting interview was heavy going for both of them.
heavy going
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Although she usually got on well with children, she found Hilary heavy going.
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Eoin Young's Diary is heavy going.
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He reports that a trip to Catterick Camp to set up rope ladders on the assault course was heavy going.
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Like the writing of all books there are times of great enthusiasm, of heavy going and quite often real blockage.
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Mwangaza was dull and heavy going.
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Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky's Sonata, which is distinctly heavy going.
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The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity.
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The resulting interview was heavy going for both of them.
here goes!
here we go
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"I still don't see why you blame me!" "Oh great, here we go again."
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Let's do that again. Ready? Here we go.
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And now, here we go again with the Gulf crisis.
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Most of us were peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.
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Oh no, I thought, here we go.
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One two three four, here we go.
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Ronald Reagan fixed that, but here we go again.
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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.
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Most of us were peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.
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Ronald Reagan fixed that, but here we go again.
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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'.
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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
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We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.
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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.
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He knows that life goes on.
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In other words, life goes on.
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It ensures that life goes on.
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The personal construction of life goes on, however much undergirded by chemotherapeutic assistance.
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To be sure, life goes on.
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We all mourn their passing, but life goes on without them.
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While you were there you had a ball, and then life goes on.
like it's going out of fashion
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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
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A dollar doesn't go very far these days.
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This pizza won't go far if everyone wants some.
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But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.
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In general, though, the managers felt the training did not go far enough.
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Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.
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The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union.
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The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.
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The privatisations also help, even if they do not go far enough.
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The symposium also featured a couple of members of Congress who believe the farm reforms did not go far enough.
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They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long, moaning howl.
on your mark(s), get set, go!
raring to go
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Carlos was raring to go soon after leaving the hospital.
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All cut up but raring to go.
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At least one other investment group was raring to go.
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Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.
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I've kept myself fit and I was raring to go.
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July 24, Lake Condoriri Day 2 and we are raring to go, working on yesterday's high.
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Lucy had been approached by an international humanist organisation, there was funding, and Lucy was raring to go.
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There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours, awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one.
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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
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More than 72,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the estuary after the tanker ran aground in 1996.
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The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground .
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The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.
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The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
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The prosecution's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground .
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Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
run/go deep
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But the main problem goes deeper and will take longer to solve.
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Maude, on the other hand, had gone deep into the pluperfect, eleven generations of it.
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So did it go deeper than that?
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The debt goes deeper than money.
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The play goes deep and inspires all sorts of questions.
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The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.
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They can play at being still waters that run deep .
run/go dry
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The reservoir ran dry during the drought.
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Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry .
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If the trend continues, he said, the springs will go dry .
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If the valve has jammed shut, causing the feed-and-expansion tank to run dry , again turn off the water supply.
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Laura McCaffrey went dry slope skiing at Calshot Activities Centre,.
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Stock tanks normally brimming with water have gone dry .
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The rivers, too, are beginning to run dry .
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Time allowed 00:06 Read in studio A soft drinks company says its could run dry if it doesn't get enough elderflowers.
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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 .
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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.
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And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.
▪
Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far .
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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.
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She'd been sure her daughter would go far .
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This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.
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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
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My heart goes out to them.
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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
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1989 will go down in history as the year in which Stalinist Communism ended.
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This Minister will go down in history as the Minister who killed off small shops in Britain.
sth would not come/go amiss
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A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss .
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A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss .
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A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss . --------------------.
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A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss .
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Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss .
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An apology wouldn't go amiss .
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In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss .
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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
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However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.
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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
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And that's the way he is.
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And that's the way it is again this year - everybody is happy with what I am doing.
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But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.
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Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that's the way it is.
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For that's the way it is for the talented twosome.
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He's always been a bit on his dignity, I suppose, but that's the way he is.
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In the end Capirossi had to do the winning himself and that's the way 1991 is going to be.
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The money we got to spend - well, that's the way it is.
the balloon goes up
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We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
the biggest/best/nicest etc sth going
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A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore.
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Are the best bargains going to petrol buyers?
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But in those years, they were always the team with the best record going into the playoffs.
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Its got to be the best ticket office going .
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Perhaps the biggest thing going was the harp played by JoAnn Turovsky, sounding positively, well, huge.
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There was a wide range of scores with the best individual score going to George McCallum of Douglas Reyburn with 37 points.
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This, so I was led to believe, was the best it was going to get.
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What is the best way of going forward? - Ideas from within I hear you say!
the clocks go back/forward
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I, like many other riders, am eagerly awaiting the clocks going forward.
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Police say they had to enforce the law after 1am when the clocks went forward an hour.
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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
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A million pounds is the going rate for an ordinary player in today's inflationary market.
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At the going rate of half a million dollars per minute, there is no time for truth.
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It typically is charged twice the going rate as the criminal inmates housed in the same facility.
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One can of C rations was the going rate.
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Or holiday-depending if he's got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.
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State law now prohibits insurers from denying coverage to small businesses or charging them more than 20 percent above the going rate.
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What is the going rate for bodies in Cairo, Mr el Zaki?
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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
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All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.
way to go!
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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
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Let's get out while the going's good.
work/run/go like stink
you can't go wrong (with sth)
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You can't go wrong with a dark gray suit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"How are your exams going, Luke?" "Fine, thanks."
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As soon as the band started playing, the crowd went silent.
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Cats go "meow."
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Come on, Joe, it's time to go .
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Did the party go well?
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Did you go to the baseball game last weekend?
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Do you know what time the next bus goes?
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Do you think this goes?
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Don't go just yet - it's not that late!
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Fiona says that her new teaching job is going really well.
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Her face went bright red with embarrassment.
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How's the job going these days?
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How far have we gone today?
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How many of you actually went last week?
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I'll have to go soon - was there anything else you wanted to talk about?
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I've packed all my bags, and I'm ready to go .
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I can't get the lawnmower to go .
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I don't exactly remember how the song goes.
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I dropped my watch, but it's still going.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
give
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They go on and on that we must give them a go.
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With another task force appointee, Spitzer gave it a go .
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As you can try them with no effort whatsoever, give them a go .
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Can you give it a go ?
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You told me you're good at most sports, so you'd better just try and give it a go .
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Only Everest eluded her, although she gave it a good go , twice.
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But even at the grand old age of 28, he was keen to give it a go .
make
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Now she was set to make a go of her programming business, and nothing was going to stop her.
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The rest of the story is that my great-grandfather could never really make a go of his life after that.
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Carol found herself wishing that Fred could make a go of something.
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I keep expecting to hear you and Cora-Beth are making a go of it?
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She just knew she could make a go of it!
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He persuaded creditors to give him three years to make a go of the garden.
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Discs realised maybe they could make a go of it.
want
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Who would want to have a go at Oglethorpe?
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They wanted to have a go at me.
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I don't believe you wouldn't want a little go .
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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
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Voters rejected the bridge expansion plan, so it's back to the drawing board for city engineers.
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For San Jose, it was back to the drawing board.
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So Superman, once the most recognized and revered hero in comic books, was sent back to the drawing board.
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Sometimes, you also have to go back to the drawing board.
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The Cta episode has therefore sent the whole idea of direct dating of petroglyphs back to the drawing board.
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They must go back to the drawing board and review the whole of youth training.
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They want to see the road plan sent back to the drawing board.
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You also could go back to the drawing board with that budget, trying to reduce costs.
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You have to discard the propeller engine and go back to the drawing board.
(go) hand in hand
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Emotional thinking, the next step in emotional develop-ment, and attention also go hand in hand.
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Most of us were born in captivity where domestication and maturation work hand in hand.
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On the Internet modernity and pluralism go hand in hand.
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Stars and superstition just seem to go hand in hand.
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The child walking hand in hand with her father.
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The rationality of faith goes hand in hand with the mystery of faith.
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They go hand in hand because the momentum of population growth is so great.
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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
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But most analysts agree that many health insurance companies would be driven out of business .
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Farmers and ranchers are still going out of business on the plains today.
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If they were not, bird-watching and natural history museums would each go out of business .
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It was assumed that I might well put a customer or two out of business .
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Now that the war was over the Navy was, in effect, out of business , and it sought repossession.
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Rather, the independent-minded newspapers believe that the government now wants to drive them out of business .
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The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.
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The league was out of business after three seasons.
(right) from the word go
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At the County Ground, the wolves were on the prowl right from the word go.
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I knew it was a deliberate attempt from the word go to bring the band down.
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In Damage, from Josephine Hart's novel, he gets more or less everything wrong from the word go.
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It was a nightmare from the word go.
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The marriage was a disaster from the word go, although I didn't realize this until it was all over.
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They are reflexes built into the system from the word go.
(you) go, girl!
a going concern
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Although its assets are notionally worth £10 billion, their market value as a going concern must be far less.
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But you and I know the Soviet Union is a going concern.
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In January 1987 she went to live in Tenerife and on 8 May 1987 she sold the business as a going concern.
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Prides Hill Kennels was a going concern.
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The company shall be presumed to be carrying on its business as a going concern.
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The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
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The possibility that parts of the business could be sold off as a going concern should not be overlooked.
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To tell her that she and Piers were now a going concern?
a little (of sth) goes a long way
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A little ketchup goes a long way.
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Clearly, a little imagination goes a long way.
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Like a powerful adhesive, a little of it goes a long way.
all systems go
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However, it was now all systems go for the future.
anything goes
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Don't worry about what to wear - anything goes at Ben's parties.
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With this season's fashions, anything goes.
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But it's a case of when you're down, anything goes.
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If anything goes wrong, she is there to alert the nurse.
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In the end humans will not adopt libertarian, anything goes values.
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The best thing about wraps is that anything goes.
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The world is ending, so anything goes.
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There is therefore the potential for personal distress if anything goes wrong.
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Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public.
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Whenever anything goes wrong, he blames it all on me.
as far as it goes
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What Kroll said was accurate, as far as it goes.
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My country has adopted individual rights in principle, but as far as it goes, it means men, not women.
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That's as far as it goes with me.
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That is encouraging as far as it goes.
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This self-defense strategy is fine as far as it goes, but it addresses only half of the prevention equation.
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Virtually all of it is right as far as it goes.
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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
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It is going great guns with special lines, the Fortress Alarm and the upgraded, fancy number, the Citadel.
be going spare
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So 10,000 posters are going spare , and the Tories are laughing.
be going strong
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The program is 20 years old this month and is still going strong .
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I told you I'd put things off until this practice is going strong .
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Over at Half House the party was going strong .
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We were going strong when the bedroom door opened.
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When I'd washed up, the ebb was going strong again.
be gone
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Look at Michelle - she's totally gone !
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Even the corrals had weeds in them, because the horses were gone .
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He did something unusual, but after 15 minutes he was gone .
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Mrs Doran was gone , Elsie was dead.
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One day, though, all this will be gone .
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One more such blow, I thought, face down in the sand, and I am gone .
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Ten minutes later Glover felt sure it would be all right if he looked to see if the chief was gone .
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The next year they are gone .
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Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever.
be gone on sb
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Arthur would be gone on the stroke of nine, and Ann too, if it was possible.
be good to go
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"Do you have all the hiking gear?" "Yeah, I'm good to go."
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I've got my shoes on and I'm good to go.
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We just need to get you a pair of skis and you're good to go.
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But if you're receiving money it would be better to go for the lump sum.
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He wandered a bit, and when it grew dark, he decided that it would be best to go home.
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If parking is difficult in a built-up area it may be better to go by public transport.
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If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone.
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It is best to go for fabrics which are stretch- and fade-resistant as well as stain- and mildew-resistant.
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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
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I was having a really hard time and I went down with Isabel and my dad.
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I went down with nothing but a. 45-caliber pistol and a flashlight.
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Looking back, it seemed inevitable that Evelyn would go down with some sort of psychological trouble.
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Mr Black paid them off on all the equipment which went down with it, but which I know was not destroyed.
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Outside linebacker Mike Morton, making his first start since Rob Fredrickson went down with season-ending shoulder surgery, had eight tackles.
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There was a sudden space when the man at Riven's shoulder went down with a cry.
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These kids are 13, 14, and they wan na be down with somethin'.
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Who knows what went down with them?
be/go on (the) record as saying (that)
be/go on the fritz
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My TV is on the fritz .
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Their appliances go on the fritz .
be/go on the prowl (for sth/sb)
be/go on the wagon
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Sometimes I would go on the wagon for a few days then have a binge.
be/go round the bend
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But if you are going round the bend and resist seeking any help you are deemed to be perfectly okay.
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I go round the bend just looking after kids all day.
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If you are known to be seeing a shrink you are deemed to be going round the bend .
be/go/keep on about sth
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And they don't go on about his obvious flaws, like him being a doctor and having three dozen girlfriends.
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Everyone goes on about Cher's dresses, showing her navel.
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However, this is the party that goes on about unemployment as though it had a good record on unemployment.
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It sounded stupid the way she went on about loving the sea.
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It went on about 15 minutes too long.
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The first I knew about it was Malcolm going on about rubber.
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This made him wary as he went on about his chores and tried not to let Lucky see him.
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Why do I go on about this, I wonder.
be/go/keep on at sb
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A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men.
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But what's going on at No. 4 and No. 8 are free rides, nothing less.
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Funny stuff going on at the Olympics.
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He had a bad leg and they kept on at him to hurry up.
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I must say I was not totally happy about her going on at Yeo Davis, with me in the government.
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Something must be going on at school.
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There was some spitting going on at the end of the game.
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You used to go on at me about getting out.
be/run/go counter to sth
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A recipe would be counter to its nature.
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It ran counter to the ideas most Christians had held for well over a thousand years.
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It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.
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They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.
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This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.
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This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.
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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
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Paula was going hot and cold by now.
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She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.
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Some of these young officers blow hot and cold.
come and go
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A force that comes and goes depending on your motion.
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As the New Year came and went, so did millions of resolutions to turn over a healthier leaf.
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Certainly the various court officials who came and went didn't seem interested.
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Generations of policemen have come and gone waiting for that mistake.
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He wore a pale green business shirt, and his shave was absolutely perfect, even as midafternoon came and went.
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Only this can explain to me why he comes and goes, comes and goes.
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The girl was a good worker who came and went quietly about her business.
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They each came and went as they pleased.
come/go along for the ride
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I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride .
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But do members just go along for the ride ?
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His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride .
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I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride .
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I went along for the ride .
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Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride .
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Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride .
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Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride .
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The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride .
come/go full circle
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After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.
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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle .
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Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.
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In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.
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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle .
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So we have come full circle .
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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle .
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Thus the research has come full circle .
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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle .
come/go under the hammer
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A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.
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Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.
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As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.
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Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.
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In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.
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It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.
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Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.
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So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.
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The rest of his collection is going under the hammer .
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They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.
come/go with the territory
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I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.
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As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory .
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Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory .
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Death always went with the territory .
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Human rights abuses go with the territory .
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Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory .
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She just said she felt it went with the territory .
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Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory .
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The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory .
come/go/get along
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Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along .
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I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.
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In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along .
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Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.
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She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.
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She wants to go along too.
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The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.
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Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?
come/go/turn full circle
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A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.
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Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.
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Now the pattern has turned full circle.
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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
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The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.
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The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.
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Thus the research has come full circle.
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Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.
could go either way
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It could go either way, as we have seen in previous months of March.
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M., still could go either way.
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The latest opinion poll suggests the vote could go either way.
don't go mad
drop/go down like ninepins
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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
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As each question is asked each team goes into a huddle and then writes down its answer.
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As with the highly misleading phrase Stavrogin's Confession, critics and commentators behave as if they had got into a huddle .
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The meeting was chaotic, but at the end Mr Williams went into a huddle with a group of hauliers.
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They had gone into a huddle , obviously discussing their captives.
get/go nowhere
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Flo has been looking for a job but has gotten nowhere .
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But it's like digging in treacle - you get nowhere .
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He's got nowhere to go but forward.
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He goes nowhere in public without enough jewelry to supply a cotillion.
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I ain't going nowhere near them.
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I submit those stats and I get nowhere .
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Indeed, the trading profit went nowhere in 2000.
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Louis Cardinals out in Bloomington, and getting nowhere .
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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
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She said she was going out of her mind in California.
go (to) bye-byes
go Dutch (with sb)
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It's good to go dutch on power.
go about your business
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The street was filled with ordinary people going about their business .
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He was indifferent to the attention he received, calmly going about his business , never using his influence to manipulate others.
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Normally it went about its business either on foot or in an arabeah, the horse-drawn cab distinctive to the city.
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Sara went about her business , more troubled than ever about Jenny's imminent arrival.
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The 49ers are counting on Deese to epitomize that professionalism as he goes about his business with Smith.
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They went about their business , expecting him to appear at any moment.
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While Deion Sanders received most of the pre-game ballyhoo, his bookend Brown went about his business with little or no fanfare.
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Yesterday, as the group of pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents.
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You have to laugh about it and go about your business .
go against the flow
go ahead
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"Can I have the sports section?" "Yeah, go ahead , I've read it."
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"Can I watch TV?'' "Sure, go ahead .''
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"Do you mind if I use your phone?" "Not at all - go ahead ."
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"Is it OK if I eat the last apple?" "Go right ahead ."
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"Is it OK if I smoke?'' "Sure, go ahead .''
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I'll go ahead and start the coffee.
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If you want to take a shower, just go ahead and take one.
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Even if Elizabeth went ahead and told Father, it was not certain that she would escape.
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Factory owners tried to stop govt. from going ahead & passing Acts but could not stop them seeing.
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I dared him to go ahead and do it.
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If you decide not to go ahead , just return the Policy within 15 days.
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If you want to buy a flamboyant pair of trousers, go ahead !
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Look, so little is known about her, just go ahead and get all the research done now.
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Reviews instances in which the Agency's activities have complicated matters or deterred developers from going ahead .
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Sure, go ahead and buy a used car from Slipshod Acme car company.
go all the way (with sb)
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A lower court forgave the debt, but the case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
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But it was touch and go all the way .
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If you went all the way across the Lake of Dreams you'd end up in the Lake of Death.
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Imagine going all the way to Inverness for a pint of milk ... Maybe that was for the cat, too.
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She is very tough mentally and determined and should go all the way to a medal.
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The chair went all the way back, folded out, so his feet were out.
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The sun went all the way down and I was standing in the purple darkness.
go ape
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Joe went ape when he found out.
go apeshit
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Four Negro GIs went apeshit striking matches on sleek bottoms.
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Ricky would go apeshit if anything happened to Wayne.
go astray
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The form you mailed must have gone astray .
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The street is filled with teenagers who have gone astray .
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I enclose a copy in case the original has gone astray .
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It could be that fewer of those bright ideas will go astray .
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It wasn't too windy, but windy enough to cause the occasional shot to go astray .
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Perhaps the most famous example of a re-creation gone astray took place in July 1989.
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She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray .
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The problem is sometimes that parts go astray , which makes it impossible to reassemble the file.
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To stop Tootle from going astray , the townspeople get together and conceive ofa clever plan, in which they all participate.
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We should not be comforted by allowing ourselves to regard Noam Friedman et al. as disturbed individuals who have gone astray .
go awry
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Your best financial plans can sometimes go awry .
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But part of its appeal, too, is a description of many translations gone awry .
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If something goes awry , like a Cabinet revolt, the government falls and new elections are held.
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It solaced him to know that he had an alternate plan if things went awry .
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Nightmare wore off somewhat during the day, but still feel things have gone awry since the weekend.
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She had done her utmost to excite, please, soothe, serve; yet everything had gone awry .
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Sweet expectancy appeared on the young faces in the children's band and the music went awry .
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Their policies on devolution seemed to be going awry .
go ballistic
go bananas
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Dad will go bananas when he sees this.
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Roy's customers think the council has gone bananas .
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Victor will go bananas , and Rachel will think I got laid.
go bang
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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
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Tim's business went belly up in 1993.
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Cooke won a settlement so big that the label went belly up.
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Lehman Brothers eventually went belly up.
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Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
go berserk
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She went berserk and began shouting at everybody on the platform.
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The guy just went totally berserk and started hitting me.
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When they tried to arrest him, he suddenly went berserk .
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But eight days after this fire went berserk , there are no serious injuries.
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But then Munter goes over the edge, sounding like a Weight Watchers leader gone berserk .
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Converse was commencing another glide when Smitty went berserk .
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He offered to show me, but Alain nearly went berserk and then we got interrupted.
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He wasn't proud of the ability to go berserk because it meant loss of control.
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No, I was a sort of insane ghetto personality who got off on the written word, and went berserk .
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On the table in the front of the room was a telephone, which rang whenever the bond market went berserk .
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She's probably lived such a repressed life she goes berserk when she comes out to the West Indies.
go blank
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I just went blank and couldn't remember his name for a minute.
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Suddenly the screen went blank .
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I remember standing there getting red in the face and my mind going blank .
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It was as if his mind had gone blank or had become a golden mind, as Larry's had.
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Mine start when I go blank .
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My mind went blank with grief and despair.
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The screen went blank , unlike his mind.
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We sat beside him and encouraged him when he stumbled or went blank .
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When she asked Karen a question, even though Karen knew the answer her mind immediately went blank .
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Why then do their minds go blank as soon as they turn over the question paper?
go blue
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Celia came down holding the baby, who had gone blue and stopped breathing.
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Do not put the bandage on too tight or you may find your fingers or toes going blue through lack of circulation.
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I could have threatened to hold my breath until I went blue .
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Strictly speaking, yes, it would tend to go blue ever so slightly.
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The baby boy went blue after his lungs became blocked.
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You rolled around, went blue and your eyes shot up into your head.
go broke
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A lot of small businesses went broke during the recession.
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And once you have so many farmers going broke , the ripple effect starts.
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Bethlehem went broke a year later, but a reissue set appeared 20 years later.
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He could also go broke - last year, farm incomes fell by 25 percent.
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Mr Menem applied such nonsense in the state of La Rioja, where he is governor; it has gone broke .
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Ninety-nine out of a hundred wildcatters went broke or crazy or both and abandoned their last asteroid with the equipment in situ.
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Project the numbers forward and government simply goes broke .
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They are delightful students, but we take them because we'd go broke if we didn't.
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Two retiring Republican senators warned their fellow lawmakers Tuesday that they need to fix the Social Security system before it goes broke .
go bust
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About 60,000 business go bust each year in the United States.
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Most of the steel factories around here went bust in the 1980s.
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The supermarket isn't there any more. They went bust ages ago.
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But when the Thatcher boom went bust Sugar's business declined with it - and so did Amstrad's market rating.
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Even when certain licensed dealers have survived, the firms in which they were making markets have gone bust .
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His haulage business went bust and he owes £120,000 on a semi in New Denham, Bucks, now worth only £80,000.
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I think I fancy a well-paid job with a firm that won't go bust .
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Last year they faced uncertainty over their jobs when the Lewis's group went bust and called in the receivers.
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Now the process has reached crisis point: the organization is about to go bust .
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Then it really went bust , flat, dead bust, in the l920s.
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When competitors pull out, get taken over or go bust , fares go up.
go by the board
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And because the domestic style was unsuited to amplified discourse, the domestic rules of politeness also went by the board .
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Health, education, transport and other welfare spending goes by the board .
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Meanwhile, there are other niceties that have simply gone by the board in certain aspects of management life.
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Moral standards go by the board in an atmosphere that seems generated purely for the above purposes.
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Scientific batsmanship goes by the board .
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Their principles have gone by the board .
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We had 100 people in the retail home delivery, but that was going by the boards by then.
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We used to play golf, but went by the board when he moved.
go by the rulebook
go camping
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Scouts frequently go hiking and camping .
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And people living at Simonds Yat in Gloucestershire want to know why Hanger was allowed out of the jail to go camping .
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Einar always had his car when we went camping .
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There, they rehearsed, improvised, went camping and played, with Williams becoming one of the boys.
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They have this experience, and then they can go camping on their own.
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You remember Miranda when we went camping ?
go cap in hand (to sb)
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Advertisers used to go to museums, cap in hand, to ask permission to use a painting for an advertisement.
go commando
go crazy
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I didn't need to go crazy .
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My boss told me to leave, and 1 went crazy .
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The Star Council had gone crazy .
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The world was going crazy and, or so it seemed, Trumptonshire would have none of it.
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They went crazy , making all that money.
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To have it happen here, see the fans go crazy .
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You go crazy with the frustration and throw a bad punch and take his counter in your mouth or solar plexus.
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You have to maintain a balance or else you go crazy .
go down a treat
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It seems to be going down a treat .
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It went down a treat with the matrons in safe seats like South-west Surrey.
go down a/this road
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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
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The Mimosa is going down the pan faster than Dynorod could.
go down the plughole
go down the tubes
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The who experiment could go down the tubes .
go downhill
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After he lost his job, things went downhill .
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I said I didn't like baseball, and the interview went downhill from then on.
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Moving in together was a mistake, and things rapidly went downhill .
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When things started to go downhill , Kyle began looking for another job.
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After that, things started to go downhill .
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Cruel observers may remark that he's been going downhill ever since.
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Life seems to have gone downhill since the younger one was born.
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Monta o accuses the city of deliberately forcing the neighborhood to go downhill , the better to justify a future land grab.
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The evening had gone downhill since she asked about the coat.
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The whole thing is going downhill .
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Things have been going downhill since the kitchen help moved into the classroom.
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You feel the situation is going downhill .
go easy on sb
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Go easy on Peter - he's having a hard time at school.
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After that, go easy on salty foods such as crisps, bacon, cheese and salted nuts.
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And go easy on the sugar, salt and alcohol.
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Fred must go easy on his eyes.
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He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.
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We can go easy on him with the questions, but I want Nate to be impressed.
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We went easy on Baker and gave him the benefit of the doubt.
go easy on/with sth
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Go easy on the cheese - it has a lot of fat.
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After that, go easy on salty foods such as crisps, bacon, cheese and salted nuts.
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And go easy on the sugar, salt and alcohol.
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Fred must go easy on his eyes.
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He seemed to thrive under prison conditions, which caused the emperors to suspect their guards of going easy on the prisoner.
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We can go easy on him with the questions, but I want Nate to be impressed.
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We went easy on Baker and gave him the benefit of the doubt.
go figure
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"He didn't even leave a message." "Go figure ."
go fly a kite
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And, let's go fly a kite.
go for broke
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Jacobsen went for broke on the last nine holes and won the tournament.
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In games, I usually go for broke . 12.
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So he felt free to go for broke .
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So, Major may be going for broke by breaking with precedent.
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This is not a show you can skimp on, and thankfully director Damian Cruden goes for broke .
go for the jugular
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A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices.
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And not that many women really feel comfortable going for the jugular .
go forward to/into
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Finally she left her seat and went forward to accept the Lord, leaving her Bible on the seat.
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Lily went forward to the wings and looked at the set.
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Quietly she went forward to the edge of the trees.
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Rex must have gone forward to deal with the foresail.
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Smiling shyly, she went forward to meet them.
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Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib.
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When, later in the service, she went forward to accept the Lord, what did she think she was accepting?
go from bad to worse
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The rail service has gone from bad to worse since it was privatised.
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The schools have gone from bad to worse in this area.
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Things went from bad to worse, and soon the pair were barely talking to each other.
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As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.
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It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.
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Matters continued to go from bad to worse.
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Matters went from bad to worse.
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On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse.
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That they are going from bad to worse.
go from bad to worse
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As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.
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It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.
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Matters continued to go from bad to worse .
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Matters went from bad to worse .
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On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse .
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That they are going from bad to worse .
go from strength to strength
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As these events were unfolding we were finding that our Partnership's lifestyle magazines were going from strength to strength.
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But now they have gone, the story line has gone from strength to strength.
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On its own terms, meanwhile, the new philology went from strength to strength.
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Ride are just going from strength to strength - one of the bands that are really cutting through at the moment.
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The railcoaches however, went from strength to strength and became the work-horses of the Blackpool system.
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We can't help but go from strength to strength.
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While the company goes from strength to strength, the union claims, its employees are losing out.
go fuck yourself/himself/themselves etc
go funny
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And his eyes went funny just as he was about to change personalities.
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I tend to sit there going funny colours.
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My eyes go funny after a bit, so I look at summat else.
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Then came the road where her knees went funny .
go halves (on sth)
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Do you want to go halves on a pizza?
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He generously agrees to go halves on you.
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She'd promised to go halves with him if he got anywhere in his negotiations.
go halves (with sb)
go haywire
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My computer has gone haywire again.
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And consider buying the same set-up as a friend so you have some one to lean on when things go haywire .
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Everything would go haywire if he saw her.
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If something goes haywire , it should be fairly easy to isolate the offending software.
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Until recently geophysicists thought that at this low point the magnetic field would also go haywire .
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When compression software really goes haywire , you can lose everything on your hard disk.
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With khaki behind the counter, the prices went haywire .
go head to head with sb
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Jim finally went head to head with his boss.
go hog wild
go hot and cold
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Paula was going hot and cold by now.
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She went hot and cold, dizzy with confusion.
go hungry
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Families went hungry , lost nine months of income, and for what, really?
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Frankie had learned to prepare in advance for those days and nights when he might otherwise go hungry .
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It was a compulsion I'd starved for, and even if I never went hungry again I would feel that compulsion for ever.
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Many people had lost everything they owned in the floods and many were now going hungry , he said.
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Most of the 300,000 people live off the land and no one has gone hungry .
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No-one is allowed to go hungry .
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She has never gone hungry , suffered horrible illness or seen some one she loves die.
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Without welfare benefits, many may become homeless, others will go hungry .
go hunting
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And there were many who wondered why Holy Trinity had to go hunting for causes so far from home.
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Just like humans, they go hunting with their blowpipes and they erect snares and traps in the jungle.
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Oh my, I think we're going hunting .
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Rufus told himself now was no time to go hunting for libraries, he would go home first.
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Sumal, her sister, who was not at all beautiful, dressed like a man and loved to go hunting .
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The group members then went hunting for another buyer, finally persuading media giant Gannett Co. to buy their option.
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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
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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
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After years of working for a big company, I decided to go it alone .
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Sayles hasn't regretted his decision to go it alone as a filmmaker.
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The response to our proposal was lukewarm, so we felt we had to go it alone .
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When it comes to parenthood, more and more women are deciding to go it alone .
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As much as he can, he tries to go it alone .
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But County Auctions, a big operation with centres at Wooler and Newcastle, was always likely to go it alone .
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Do not try to go it alone - everything you do will be enhanced by the company of another.
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He knew that each brought something important to the relationship, but that neither could go it alone .
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If we would not be better off, it might be better to go it alone .
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Many of them do not have the capital or a big enough infrastructure to go it alone , he said.
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No single community could go it alone .
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That was when Brian decided to go it alone , sourcing the units and adapting them himself.
go live
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Before you rush to subscribe, however, it's only the phone arm of the service that has gone live .
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Care management goes live in April 1993 but is still poorly rehearsed and its performance may yet disappoint.
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On 12 January the Midland electrification between Luton and Bedford went live in preparation for driver-only training. 1982.
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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.
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The service, CallNet0800, goes live on 1 November.
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Undeterred, Gandhi declared he would go live in a hut in the untouchable quarter.
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We went live on air by telephone for about ten minutes, at about 8.25 am.
go loopy
go mental
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Back home, the missus is going mental and your dinner's in the dustbin.
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We're at the same position here as we were when we were selling out Harlow Square with the audience going mental .
go native
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Austen has been living in Papua New Guinea so long he's gone native .
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There would be no going native at Zhanjiang.
go nuts
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But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen.
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Every time Greene did something he went nuts , throwing his body around the field like a one-man Mardi Gras.
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It was pure magic and Philadelphia fans went nuts .
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Most of the walls are really light panels, so we don't go nuts from the dark.
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My classmate and I thought he had gone nuts .
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So don't go nuts - use those leftovers in the following recipes.
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The fans go nuts , stomping so loudly that they drown out the announcer.
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What if this man of yours just went nuts for no reason at all?
go off at a tangent
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As for going off at tangents , my dear, I do it myself, hormone balance not withstanding.
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Loretta's mind went off at a tangent .
go off at the deep end
go off half cocked
go off the boil
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Even extortion has gone off the boil .
▪
I knew as soon as I wrote it down I'd go off the boil .
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Now it appears to have gone off the boil .
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The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer.
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We're letting the kettle go off the boil .
go off the rails
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But it was the news pages that had really gone off the rails .
▪
Has something gone off the rails here?
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Things started to go off the rails , however, with the Fiat Multipla.
go on forever
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The train just seemed to go on forever .
go on the block
go on the offensive
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But before Adamowski could get his campaign under way, Daley threw him off balance by going on the offensive .
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Hastily revising his plans for my career, he settled us into our Cape Cod retreat and went on the offensive .
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If she could find somewhere dry, she would be able to go on the offensive .
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So she did not need to go on the offensive and was not required to fight.
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Temperamentally unsuited for compromise, Tatum went on the offensive .
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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)
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Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better .
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But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
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Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
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Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
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Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better .
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She goes one better than last year.
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The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
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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
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Also by definition, of course, the conventional measures of company valuation went out of the window .
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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 .
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Douglas went out the window when they turned on him.
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If they are barred from this, cost control could go out of the window .
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Once they sniffed victory caution went out of the window .
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Regular-season stuff goes out the window .
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When it hit, tradition went out the window , taking with it a great many careers.
go out of your mind
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I'm with the kids all day, and I'm starting to feel like I'm losing my mind .
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If I have to wait in one more line, I'm going to go out of my mind .
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She said she was going out of her mind in California.
go out of your way to do sth
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Jennifer knew what a difficult time I was having, and went out of her way to be friendly.
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They went out of their way to make me feel welcome.
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When Annie arrived, Harriman went out of his way to make life pleasant for her.
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And the recording industry is going out of its way to help.
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How to be compassionate to their pain and go out of their way to help them?
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Neither do they go out of their way to look for targets, human or otherwise.
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So empty, in fact, that the United States seemed to go out of its way to insult Ismail.
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This is the second time to-night she has gone out of her way to be sensitive to Oregon.
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To register his annoyance, he seemed to go out of his way to ignore us.
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We are going out of our way to help him with it.
go over sb's head
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The more emotional scenes go right over the kids' heads .
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Are we going to get Blagg or do we go over your head ?
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Could he go over the heads of Congress and get the country behind him?
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He says that the bid is hostile because it goes over the heads of the directors.
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His enormous arm went over Rory's head , the empty pint pot hanging in the smoke above the counter.
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Mrs Singh seemed to be listening intently but I guess that a lot of what was being said went over her head .
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They worried that the experienced subordinate would go over their head and gain support from their superiors.
go overboard
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Don't you think you went a little overboard on the decorations?
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Although Levin sometimes goes overboard with jokes, his breezy, slightly irreverent tone is a welcome one.
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I decided to go overboard with processors and connected three digital multi-effects units and a mono delay.
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It was feared he'd gone overboard and air and sea search was launched.
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My problem is, I have a tendency to go overboard with compliments.
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Then more cans of the gas, so carefully loaded the day before, went overboard .
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They were to stay on the alert for any soldier unlucky enough to go overboard .
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You are demonstrating to them how to recognize, name and communicate their feelings without going overboard .
go pear-shaped
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Meg plays Alice, a cheerful hippy in the minutes before everything goes pear-shaped .
go phut
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I tried to do a tree too but the shaving foam went phut and I realized I'd used it all up.
go piss up a rope!
go postal
go potty
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Do you have to go potty ?
go public
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Several biotech companies went public this year.
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The chairman didn't want to go public with the information.
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After going public at 28, Netscape closed the year at 139.
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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.
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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 .
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Police went public after police cars were rammed and officers injured.
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The stock, accounting for splits since the firm went public in 1986, has appreciated by 340 percent.
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What better time is there to go public ?
go sb's way
go shopping
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I'm going shopping now. Do you want anything?
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Let's meet in town. We can have lunch and go shopping .
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And if she was staying she had to go shopping for groceries.
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Arrange to go shopping with a resident who wants to buy new clothes.
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By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
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Governments measure inflation by going shopping .
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Richard and I go shopping on Castro Street.
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This was the case when Chavez decided to go shopping in Tampa.
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When it goes shopping for fresh solutions, the open organization ought to be looking for a good fit and durability.
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When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.
go short (of sth)
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But Jude is used to going short of beauty sleep-although it doesn't show.
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Debbie's husband would have cared if he had gone short , oh yes.
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More of the world-beating copies are on sale today in areas that went short .
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Since these are fairly cheap to buy and easy to prepare, the elderly rarely go short of them.
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So whether you're visiting Perth or Penzance, you need never go short of cash.
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That would make it extremely painful to have gone short of sterling in the past few days.
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The stroke went short and choppy.
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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
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But Mala had gone some way towards the opposite.
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Funding for public works, including community-based arts projects, went some way towards alleviating mass unemployment.
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However, the Commission has recently issued a notice which goes some way towards defining the elements of them.
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It is proposed that hypertext systems go some way towards providing students with alternative structures for organizing their knowledge of electronic publishing.
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Most of the old great Elf towns date from this period and it goes some way towards accounting for their remoteness.
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The theory also goes some way towards answering the question of why people speak indirectly.
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This goes some way towards typing the organism causing the disease.
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Will he go some way towards reviewing the process?
go south
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After four years, their relationship began to go south .
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Arthur chose Brewyn, a man he could be certain of, then went south to Caerleon well content.
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But first he wanted to go south .
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His playing time evaporated until just before the break and his numbers also went south .
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I must get to the station, go south again.
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If so, go south about three miles to Bunker Hill Road.
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Motorola stock has been going south since it reached a record 82 1 / 2 last Sept. 29.
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The Marauders going south to play football?
go spare
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I often ring at this time of the night for a chat, it helps to stop me from going spare .
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Mrs Mangle would be mortified, Harold horrified ... and Scott would go spare .
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One spare nut on a table may not seem much of an asset, but 10,000 nuts going spare are a liability.
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So 10,000 posters are going spare , and the Tories are laughing.
go stag
go steady (with sb)
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I could really go for him in a big way, but he's going steady with the staff nurse on Rainbow.
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If you can't, it's as well you're not going steady .
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Maybe they don't talk about going steady any more, he thought.
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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
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He's been going straight for about six months now.
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Tony's been trying to go straight for about six months.
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You can't expect these people to go straight when no one's ever going to give them a job.
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He has been born into this world and gone straight to hell.
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He went straight up to Oxford Street and bought a tracksuit.
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It was some time before they were able to leave the hospital, and they went straight to Jack's barn.
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Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole.
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Left to our own devices, we Wobegonians go straight for the small potatoes.
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When she came back she avoided his look and went straight to a small table next to the stove.
go swimmingly
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Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before.
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Things were going swimmingly , what with remarkably honest plumbers, electricians and carpenters fixing up my new home.
go the way of all flesh
go the whole hog
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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?
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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.
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Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages.
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The Siemens display goes the whole hog.
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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)
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I would have gone through fire for Peter Docherty.
go through the floor
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In the past few years, stock prices have gone through the floor .
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Last year, sales went through the floor .
go through the mill
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Busiack has been through the mill with these federal investigators.
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Part of the Council's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation.
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We went through the mill together, Franklin.
go through the motions (of doing sth)
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But the picking up strikes a chord and going through the motions always works.
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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.
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The authorities occasionally go through the motions of clamping down.
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To Harry, Jack looked like a man going through the motions .
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Too many students are going through the motions without any significant engagement in learning.
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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
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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'.
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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 .
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The second day went through the roof with a whopping 573,604.
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They criticise the poll tax, but when they were in office the rates went through the roof .
go through the wringer
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His ex-wife really put Barry through the wringer .
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Before being reunited with his 14-year-old wife and baby, Pedro Sotelo went through the wringer Thursday.
go through your paces
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At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense.
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Most of the students are satisfied eating and watching Reed go through her paces , with very few questions asked.
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Slaven went through his paces as the club announced a sell-out for the March 4 first leg at Ayresome Park.
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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 bat for sb
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Rene went to bat for me with the director and I ended up getting the part.
go to earth
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All the village had gone to earth .
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He'd go to earth and stay there till dark.
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Not much doubt he slipped in there and went to earth in the shed, for some purpose of his own.
go to ground
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After flying into a military airport in a private jet, he went to ground .
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Also they are very severe on the second man going to ground .
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I'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence.
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Let any crook try to find me, I said to myself, when I go to ground in Uulaa-la.
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The dead man's brother has gone to ground .
go to hell and back
go to hell in a handbasket
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The education system in this state has gone to hell in a handbasket.
go to hell!
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Don't answer the phone - he can go to hell !
go to law
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At the time, she was intending to go to law school with a view to taking over her father's law firm.
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I might go to law school next year, and I wanted to find out if I liked it.
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Indeed, they are going to law school, too.
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Merrill plans to work for a year, perhaps abroad, and then go to law school.
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So the museum has gone to law to get the pictures back.
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So we've been left with no other avenue but to go to law .
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Well, what else could I do with a history and humanities interest outside of teach or go to law school?
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When I go to law schools to speak, I recognize them immediately.
go to pieces
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I was so nervous in my driving test I just went to pieces .
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Keeping busy was the only thing that kept her from going to pieces during the divorce.
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When they lost the family business, Liz went to pieces .
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He was going to pieces inside, just as Lorton intended, and he didn't like it.
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I almost went to pieces in that room.
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It seems he goes to pieces in a crisis, then.
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That's perhaps why things began to go to pieces when the boy was born.
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The ship broke in half, tumbled over the precipice, and went to pieces .
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With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces , disintegrate, and become re-sorts of vice and disease.
go to pot
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My God, they've really let the house go to pot .
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Birth then becomes difficult and painful and, of course, the economics of the whole operation goes to pot .
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Her relationship with the boy has gone to pot lately.
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Many people's good intentions go to pot as Ian Cocking does the work virtually single handed.
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Montreal was powdering its face and putting on lipstick while infrastructure was going to pot .
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The foundry was allowed to go to pot in the seventies and Pringle's started purchasing from outside suppliers.
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There was another moneymaking scheme gone to pot .
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This whole village has gone to pots .
go to press
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The May issue was ready to go to press when the magazine closed down.
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Although correct at the time of going to press , the programme is subject to amendment.
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As we went to press more than 200,000 copies had already been sold.
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At the time this book was going to press , I had not yet been able to undertake further investigations.
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Ed - Sorry the photos were not available at time of going to press due to Christmas printing deadlines.
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However, as we went to press they were still sorting out what stays and what goes.
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Prices correct at time of going to press .
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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
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He's let his father's old house go to rack and ruin.
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It seems that the government is prepared to let all our hospitals and schools go to rack and ruin.
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The old farmhouse had gone to rack and ruin.
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First they let the house go to rack and ruin, then the garden; now they were sheltering hippies.
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Yet the truth of it was that the estates were going to rack and ruin.
go to sb's head
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Dave really let his promotion go to his head .
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The wine went straight to my head .
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A rush of blood went to Rosheen's head as the infection he had implanted did its work.
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At ten o'clock they went to the tunnel head .
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He went to the head in the middle of the night to study the fluid, a dreadful yellowish drip.
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I think your Nobel Prize has gone to your head .
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Production went to his head and thrilled his sleepless nerves like liquor or women on a Saturday night.
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She was a looker, that one, and I guess it went to her head .
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They were floundering chest-deep, and Riven went to Madra's head , helping to hold it above the water.
go to sleep
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Are you two going to stop talking and go to sleep ?
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Can you stop leaning on me please? My arm's gone to sleep .
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He lay on the sofa and pretended to go to sleep .
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I looked over at Dave, but he had gone to sleep .
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If I wake up in the night, it takes me ages to go back to sleep .
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Every time I go to sleep I don't know what's gon na happen.
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He went to sleep as he stood there, clutching his glass, his forehead resting on the windowpane.
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I did just as he suggested, and put the note in his mailbox that night, and went to sleep .
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I read and went to sleep .
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Oh, you did not go to sleep as directed, at eight?
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The man stepped back into the centre of the circle, and seemed almost to go to sleep .
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They did not expect to get home, says the poet; still, they went to sleep .
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You go upstairs and read Campbell a story before she goes to sleep .
go to some/great/any lengths (to do sth)
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Both want to steal the show and they are going to great lengths to do it.
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Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.
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Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.
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George Bush went to great lengths to keep out of his way on the campaign trail.
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The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery.
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When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
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Who knows whether Oppenheimer went to any lengths to find anyone who had anything good to say about Stewart.
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Yet Phillips climbed the wall anyway, went to great lengths to hurt his ex-girlfriend.
go to the bad
go to the country
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And yet Callaghan very nearly did go to the country late in 1978.
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Attlee went to the country over the issue and lost the general election of October 1951.
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I've had my orders. l m going to the country for a while, to merry Mytchett Place.
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Individuals possess conveyances to go to the country .
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So, anyway, I went to the country .
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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
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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
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The people of Houston will go to the polls next week to elect a new mayor.
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We're trying to encourage young people to go to the polls .
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With only two days left before France goes to the polls , all parties are campaigning hard.
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A week after that, three big Midwestern states hold primaries, and on March 26, Californians go to the polls .
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As they go to the polls the voters know what package of compromises they are voting for.
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If so, on past form only a third of the electorate will bother to go to the polls .
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In June 1983, Margaret Thatcher went to the polls for the second time.
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Next week, they go to the polls in a presidential election that should indicate where their sympathies lie.
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Republican voters will go to the polls for four hours to select the first batch of delegates of the presidential primary season.
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So people go to the polls convinced their only choice is the lesser of two evils.
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This Tuesday, August 5, voters will go to the polls to accept or reject the proposed charter.
go to the toilet
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Encourage those who are mobile to go to the toilet on their own.
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I couldn't be bothered to go to the toilet and they always came and changed me.
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I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them on to the other side of the hall.
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Over the next day and a half she only left the room twice to go to the toilet .
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The old man got up to go to the toilet again.
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Then, next time you go to the toilet , try this stop test half way through emptying your bladder.
go to the wall
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He's not a candidate that Democrats would go to the wall for.
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High interest rates will force many businesses to go to the wall .
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Over 300 small firms have gone to the wall in the past year.
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In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.
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It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall .
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Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination.
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Small livestock farmers have gone to the wall in their thousands.
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Some farmers did go to the wall , but far fewer than predicted.
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The trades unionist suspects that in competitive capitalism the weak go to the wall .
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Those who could stand the pace flourished; those who could not went to the wall .
go to town (on sth)
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Sandy went to town on the displays.
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Bénéteau went to town in their usual impressive way; it is, after all, their home patch.
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Bury that snout in Haagen-Dasz and go to town !
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In the United States of the early 1940s, women still donned hats and gloves to go to town .
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Over another cup of coffee we made plans to go to town .
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This month he goes to town on forms.
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When we used to go to town he used to get her out and carry her.
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Windows give you a chance to go to town .
go to waste
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Don't let all this food go to waste .
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If no one else wants this, I'll eat it -- I hate to see good food go to waste .
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Local produce often goes to waste because people prefer to buy imported food.
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We can't let all our hard work go to waste .
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And all that effort went to waste .
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Every part of the animal was used and nothing went to waste .
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However, they needn't go to waste .
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I hate to see them go to waste .
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I still had tickets to use for this season, and now those will just go to waste .
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Oh, no, she resolved, not twice; she wasn't going to waste another year of her life!
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She wasn't going to waste her strength.
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Unfortunately, most of these useful and innovative ideas go to waste without investigation.
go too far
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Investors are concerned that real estate inflation has gone too far .
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The court ruled that the police went too far when they handcuffed Rooney to a chair.
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Has he gone too far out of bounds to get back on course?
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I can only hope I am proved wrong: things have gone too far to turn back the tide.
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She would make sure she did not go too far , or too soon.
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Surely a barber didn't hold his client in this way, was he perhaps going too far ?
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Their elders in Linea 13 try to keep them from going too far .
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They never went too far out.
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They want to go too far .
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We have already gone too far .
go trick or treating
go underground
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Denkins went underground to escape police.
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A few days later, Valenzuela went underground .
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But some of the activity has gone underground .
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Delvalle went underground but continued to be recognized by the United States.
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Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist.
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If company policies are too stringent or punitive, couples simply go underground .
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Instead of changing its policies, however, the government went underground .
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Like the Sleepers of Ephesus, ideas go underground for a few centuries to re-emerge when times are more propitious.
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The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground .
go unpunished
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Before 1870, a husband could legally go unpunished for beating his wife.
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Guards involved in drug deals went unpunished .
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Hate crimes will not be tolerated and will not go unpunished .
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At this point in development, children typically believe that a lie is wrong even if it goes unpunished .
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But no good deed goes unpunished in noire crime stories.
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In Port-au-Prince there are fears that Dominique's murder, like the deaths of so many others, will go unpunished .
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It looked a harsh decision, especially when the referee allowed late tackles to go unpunished .
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Middlesex have twice had to carpet Ramprakash this season after astonishing flare-ups and another incident went unpunished .
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Numerous violations of constitutional rights went unpunished during the thirties.
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Of course, when it comes to oligarchies and bureaucracies, no good deed goes unpunished .
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Your pride won't go unpunished .
go up in flames/burst into flames
go up in smoke
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After Warrington they've got to be careful or we might be blown up in smoke .
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Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke .
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For the yards owner, it was 25 years of work up in smoke .
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If so, what happens when Buckingham Palace, Sandringham or Balmoral go up in smoke ?
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Its mosque went up in smoke .
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Such deliberation, while the youth of Britain were liable to go up in smoke , outraged many.
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That's well over £5,000 up in smoke - or, to be exact, an average £44.66 a month.
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Three hundred tons of freshly harvested hay and straw went up in smoke .
go up/come down in the world
go walkabout
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I thought I'd just go walkabout and see what I can dig up.
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Our man's gone walkabout for reasons of his own.
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Prunella was right - why the fuss just because Blythe had gone walkabout ?
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You know that when a black fella dies the whole family moves out of the house and goes walkabout .
go west
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But Helper had gone West in the decade before the Civil War.
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But she was quiet and respectful, and she was eager to go West .
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It goes west along the river Humber before passing north around the western edge of the Yorkshire Wolds.
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Jack went west for a holiday in the summer of 1954 while he contemplated his future.
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The full quota of how many and whose scripts went west in this rethink will probably never be known.
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William did not go West on an existential errand; the end of his journey was known.
go wild
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The stock market went wild today.
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When Jordan's picture flashed on the screen, the crowd went wild .
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Apparently Maggie is going wild trying to find out who is responsible for seasonal changes.
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But the flashing lights pass straight through, on to some real emergency, and the crowd goes wild .
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No, they wouldn't: they'd go wild .
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Soon-Yi told friends that Mia went wild after finding nude photos of her in film-maker Allen's Manhattan apartment.
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Southampton went wild when the Friendship came into view.
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The borough of Brooklyn went wild , turning into one long block party.
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Use the traditional pink and white marshmallows or go wild with lots of assorted shapes and colours.
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Well, by that time it was going on the screen, and then the markets went wild .
go with a swing
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In the evening, after the first stiffness wore off and charades were introduced, the party went with a swing .
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Now he was in an excellent mood and the party began to go with a swing .
go with the flow
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If you want to stay sane, just go with the flow .
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Chretien is an opportunist who goes with the flow .
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Here she is pushed and pulled, directed and redirected, forced to go with the flow of the mob.
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In high school, I went with the flow .
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It feels like freedom: I can go with the flow .
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Most of them just go with the flow , ending up as something like a gas fitter or a policeman.
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Relax - and go with the flow .
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Then allow yourself to be carried gently downstream, going with the flow .
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Whereas I seek to go with the flow .
go wrong
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As far the contract was concerned, I don't know where I went wrong .
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Check your work again and see if you can spot where you went wrong .
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If you follow the easy step-by-step instructions, you really can't go wrong .
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It was soon after the birth of their first child that their relationship started to go wrong .
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Only the two of you know what went wrong .
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The experiment went wrong when the chemicals combined to form a poisonous gas.
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The rescue attempt went badly wrong when the building collapsed.
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But it all went wrong when, some 15 years ago, he flunked math and didn't get into college.
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If not, what went wrong ?
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In case anything went wrong , I was prepared to make a dash for Armstrong.
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It is not that juries occasionally go wrong .
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It was obvious that much could go wrong .
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John Hill's son says he's not been given the full facts about what went wrong .
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Research shows that many injured patients simply want to find out what went wrong .
go your own way
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After that if you want to be organised, you can be - or alternatively you can go your own way .
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But enough to allow you to go your own way .
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I want to go my own way , alone.
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If Cultural Studies goes its own way , what happens to what is left?
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Or, of course, you can go your own way .
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Speech goes its own way , and speakers drift farther than ever from a literary standard.
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The herd ad is intended to show that the company goes its own way in investing.
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The pairs of glassy eyes no longer corresponded, in death they broke ranks, each distended eye gone its own way .
go your separate ways
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After this they go their separate ways.
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He says that they more or less go their separate ways, Felicity and this green fellow she's married to.
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In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.
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Only then, in the shock of the open air at last, did we break ranks and go our separate ways.
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Or would they go their separate ways, each ruling an independent principality?
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She takes it up, the partners disengage and go their separate ways.
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They were too readily allowed to go their separate ways.
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We all seemed to split up and go our separate ways afterwards.
go/be beyond (all) reason
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Their demands go beyond all reason .
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But by this time Maidstone was beyond all reason .
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He is beyond reason , Diniz.
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It was beyond all reason that Hal, who had performed flawlessly for so long, should suddenly turn assassin.
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Their condition is beyond reason , but it is certainly not, as they believe, beyond cure.
go/be out like a light
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She was out like a light , as soon as we put her in bed.
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A minute later he went out like a light .
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Either it was the brandy or it was the heat, but she went out like a light .
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I went out like a light .
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Something hit me on the back of the head, here, and I went out like a light .
go/be out of use
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The guns are out of use and that is what matters.
go/come along
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A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.
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Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.
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If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along .
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Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
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Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.
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So I agreed to go along .
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The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.
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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
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We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire .
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In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire .
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It is down to the wire .
go/get/be beyond a joke
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The condition of Tam's leather jacket had got beyond a joke .
go/move downmarket
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The Opera House specialised in drama for nine years - and then went downmarket .
go/run around in circles
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We've got to solve the problem instead of running around in circles , writing letters that never get answered.
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I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
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She jumps up and down and runs around in circles .
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That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.
go/run like clockwork
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A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
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And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork .
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Sometimes it ran like clockwork , sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
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Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork .
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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
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And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly.
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At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed .
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Formerly owned by Arthur Siegel, it had since gone to seed .
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Mark knows he has allowed himself to go to seed a bit.
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She looked middle-aged, overdressed, a show-girl gone to seed .
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The rest of the College, like the theatre, seems in Paul Pry's day to have run to seed .
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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
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I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .
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Over and over it ran through his mind .
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Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?
go/turn over sth in your mind
go/walk down the aisle
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As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles.
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He wanted to walk down the aisle with you and give you away to your young man.
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Her mouth turned up at the corners, Mavis walked down the aisle with Walter.
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Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle .
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Resplendent in red, she walks down the aisle on the arm of the Rev.
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The wedding was off, because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit!
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They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers.
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Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.
gone for a burton
hard going
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Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going.
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But getting to be one of these fashionable high-flying image makers with a top salary is hard going.
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I don't mind it, but it's pretty hard going to sleep with this banging going on.
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Much of it was hard going, especially in the early parts.
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Robbie's sandals were low-heeled, but even so she found the pace hard going.
have a good thing going
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They've got a good thing going with that little business of theirs.
have a lot going for you
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With her brains and good looks, she certainly has a lot going for her.
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Human travel agents, paper guidebooks and newspaper ads still have a lot going for them.
have everything going for you
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Barry had everything going for him -- charm, looks, intelligence, but still he was unemployed.
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Dan seemed to have everything going for him in college.
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She was bright and pretty and had everything going for her.
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It seems to have everything going for it.
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The events have everything going for them.
heavy going
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Although she usually got on well with children, she found Hilary heavy going.
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Eoin Young's Diary is heavy going.
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He reports that a trip to Catterick Camp to set up rope ladders on the assault course was heavy going.
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Like the writing of all books there are times of great enthusiasm, of heavy going and quite often real blockage.
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Mwangaza was dull and heavy going.
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Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky's Sonata, which is distinctly heavy going.
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The findings indicate why groups such as the Pearl are finding it heavy going in their core business activity.
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The resulting interview was heavy going for both of them.
here goes!
here we go
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"I still don't see why you blame me!" "Oh great, here we go again."
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Let's do that again. Ready? Here we go.
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And now, here we go again with the Gulf crisis.
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Most of us were peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.
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Oh no, I thought, here we go.
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One two three four, here we go.
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Ronald Reagan fixed that, but here we go again.
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So, again, here we go.
here we go again
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"You've been drinking again, haven't you!" "Oh God, here we go again."
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And now, here we go again with the Gulf crisis.
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Most of us were peaceful and decent, but here we go again, in our fifth war of this century.
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Ronald Reagan fixed that, but here we go again.
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You see, here we go again.
here you are/here you go
it's all go
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It's all go around here this morning. Ten new orders, all marked "URGENT'.
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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
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We had to jump through a lot of hoops in order to get the play on stage.
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He had me roll my body across the yard, he had me hop, he had me jump through hoops .
keep (sb) going
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I wondered, as I sat on his bed, how long he could keep this going.
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It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning.
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Only those who keep a dialogue going will be able to put in a word for persons in need of intercession.
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Then I thought, why not keep this going?
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They just keep going and going, and fighting the company, and doing more and more things.
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Thinking of different pressed flower ideas for birthday presents should keep you going for a while!
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When going to the C section keep the snare going.
keep (sth) going
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I wondered, as I sat on his bed, how long he could keep this going.
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It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning.
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Only those who keep a dialogue going will be able to put in a word for persons in need of intercession.
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Rabbit wonders how many animals have died to keep his life going, how many more will die.
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Then I thought, why not keep this going?
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They just keep going and going, and fighting the company, and doing more and more things.
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Thinking of different pressed flower ideas for birthday presents should keep you going for a while!
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When going to the C section keep the snare going.
keep going
keep going
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Keep going! You can break the record!
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At one point, Bessie Hall tried to give up, but Misner persuaded her to keep going.
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Even when the sun goes down, the world still has to keep going round.
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I was on the controls, and I decided to keep going.
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Maria kept going off on tangents.
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She had to keep going until they reached Ibiza.
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The circulation of Good Housekeeping keeps going up and up, which gives us all a great buzz.
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The family car, an old Rugby, was kept going with similar improvisation.
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We kept going, Kip chuckling every so often, me concentrating on the map.
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At one point, Bessie Hall tried to give up, but Misner persuaded her to keep going.
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Even when the sun goes down, the world still has to keep going round.
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I was on the controls, and I decided to keep going.
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Maria kept going off on tangents.
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She had to keep going until they reached Ibiza.
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The circulation of Good Housekeeping keeps going up and up, which gives us all a great buzz.
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The family car, an old Rugby, was kept going with similar improvisation.
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We kept going, Kip chuckling every so often, me concentrating on the map.
keep sb going
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Her letters were the only things that kept me going while I was a prisoner.
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I wondered, as I sat on his bed, how long he could keep this going.
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It had been the hope which had kept her going through the dawn and early morning.
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Only those who keep a dialogue going will be able to put in a word for persons in need of intercession.
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Rabbit wonders how many animals have died to keep his life going, how many more will die.
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Then I thought, why not keep this going?
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They just keep going and going, and fighting the company, and doing more and more things.
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Thinking of different pressed flower ideas for birthday presents should keep you going for a while!
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When going to the C section keep the snare going.
leave go/hold of sth
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Sometimes the girl did not leave hold of her swing, and the act failed.
let go
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Let go! You're hurting me.
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At the end of the fair, the school let go of hundreds of balloons.
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Just let go and jump.
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She wouldn't let go of the letter.
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Cory Selliker, his eyes watering under the brim of his black Earnhardt cap, heard Marchman's advice to let go.
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He let go and ducked back into the driving rain.
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It was as if they were clinging to each other, and they couldn't let go.
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So mestizo culture - reluctant to let go of tradition - created its own deity to host the yearly handout.
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Then the turtle was going to tear his arms off, and he let go.
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They let go of the girl and led Hilda behind the partition.
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What was it that he himself would have to let go of before he reached the mountaintop?
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You have to let go or go mad.
let sb go
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Due to a lack of evidence against the suspect, the police had to let the prisoner go.
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I just kept praying that the man would let me go.
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The police let her go after a night in jail.
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We've had to let three people go this month.
let sth go
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I've nowhere to store all this china, so I'm letting the whole lot go for $50.
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They've held the world record for many years, and they're not going to let it go without a fight.
let yourself go
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Dick took me to the party and, for once, I let myself go completely.
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He's quite scholarly, but he can be really funny when he lets himself go.
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She's really let herself go since she had the baby.
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I merely let myself go to impulse.
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If they are kind, if they care about you, they may want to know why you are letting yourself go.
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One thing you could say for my daughter, she never let herself go.
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People may be unusually observant and tell you that you are letting yourself go.
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Perhaps Moira and Martin had almost lost each other because they were afraid to let themselves go.
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She'd let herself go, last night - but she was none the worse for it, was she?
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That left plenty of room for those wanting to let themselves go.
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You can come up and let yourself go - shout about and that and muck about.
life goes on
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For them, life goes on.
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He knows that life goes on.
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In other words, life goes on.
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It ensures that life goes on.
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The personal construction of life goes on, however much undergirded by chemotherapeutic assistance.
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To be sure, life goes on.
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We all mourn their passing, but life goes on without them.
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While you were there you had a ball, and then life goes on.
like it's going out of fashion
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She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion .
look what you're doing/look where you're going etc
mind how you go
need I ask/need I say more/need I go on etc?
never let a day/week/year etc go by without doing sth
not be going anywhere
not go far
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A dollar doesn't go very far these days.
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This pizza won't go far if everyone wants some.
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But it is more likely that he will not go far enough.
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In general, though, the managers felt the training did not go far enough.
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Republicans criticized him for not going far enough.
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The Bundesbank has warned that monetary union will fail because Maastricht did not go far enough on political union.
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The management changes may not go far enough, analysts said.
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The privatisations also help, even if they do not go far enough.
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The symposium also featured a couple of members of Congress who believe the farm reforms did not go far enough.
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They had not gone far when again the clerk heard that long, moaning howl.
not know whether you are coming or going
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Andre's so in love he doesn't know whether he's coming or going.
on your mark(s), get set, go!
raring to go
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Carlos was raring to go soon after leaving the hospital.
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All cut up but raring to go.
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At least one other investment group was raring to go.
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Croft took a year's sabbatical to recover from a string of niggling injuries and is now raring to go again.
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I've kept myself fit and I was raring to go.
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July 24, Lake Condoriri Day 2 and we are raring to go, working on yesterday's high.
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Lucy had been approached by an international humanist organisation, there was funding, and Lucy was raring to go.
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There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours, awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one.
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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
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More than 72,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the estuary after the tanker ran aground in 1996.
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The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground .
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The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.
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The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
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The prosecution's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground .
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Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
run/go deep
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But the main problem goes deeper and will take longer to solve.
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Maude, on the other hand, had gone deep into the pluperfect, eleven generations of it.
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So did it go deeper than that?
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The debt goes deeper than money.
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The play goes deep and inspires all sorts of questions.
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The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.
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They can play at being still waters that run deep .
run/go dry
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The reservoir ran dry during the drought.
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Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry .
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If the trend continues, he said, the springs will go dry .
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If the valve has jammed shut, causing the feed-and-expansion tank to run dry , again turn off the water supply.
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Laura McCaffrey went dry slope skiing at Calshot Activities Centre,.
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Stock tanks normally brimming with water have gone dry .
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The rivers, too, are beginning to run dry .
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Time allowed 00:06 Read in studio A soft drinks company says its could run dry if it doesn't get enough elderflowers.
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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
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Little legs going like the clappers .
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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
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A man of his abilities should go far in the Party.
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And the effects would go far beyond the natural world.
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Ghost: Oh, very droll, dear lad - you will go far .
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Her decisions would go far toward shaping the postwar world.
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It remains to be seen whether such measures will go far to avoid a repetition of the basic abuses, however.
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She'd been sure her daughter would go far .
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This will go far beyond pep talks and motivational speeches.
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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 going to love sth
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And take it from me, you're going to love it.
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Just as well she had such guts really, because no one was going to love her for her feminine self.
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We want some one the public is going to love or hate, not just the leading scorer.
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You're going to love Riverstown.
sb's heart goes out to sb
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My heart goes out to them.
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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
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1989 will go down in history as the year in which Stalinist Communism ended.
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This Minister will go down in history as the Minister who killed off small shops in Britain.
sth would not come/go amiss
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A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss .
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A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss .
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A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss . --------------------.
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A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss .
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Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss .
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An apology wouldn't go amiss .
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In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss .
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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
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However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.
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Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing: that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true.
tell sb where to go/where to get off
that's (just) the way sth/sb is/that's (just) the way sth goes
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And that's the way he is.
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And that's the way it is again this year - everybody is happy with what I am doing.
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But they think they can run everything from Detroit and that's the way the organisation is going to be restructured.
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Even the best generals sometimes lose with this army just because that's the way it is.
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For that's the way it is for the talented twosome.
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He's always been a bit on his dignity, I suppose, but that's the way he is.
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In the end Capirossi had to do the winning himself and that's the way 1991 is going to be.
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The money we got to spend - well, that's the way it is.
the balloon goes up
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We don't want you being left behind in Mbarara if the balloon goes up.
the biggest/best/nicest etc sth going
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A few hundred metres off-shore we congregate so that Tor can explain the best way of going ashore.
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Are the best bargains going to petrol buyers?
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But in those years, they were always the team with the best record going into the playoffs.
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Its got to be the best ticket office going .
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Perhaps the biggest thing going was the harp played by JoAnn Turovsky, sounding positively, well, huge.
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There was a wide range of scores with the best individual score going to George McCallum of Douglas Reyburn with 37 points.
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This, so I was led to believe, was the best it was going to get.
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What is the best way of going forward? - Ideas from within I hear you say!
the clocks go back/forward
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I, like many other riders, am eagerly awaiting the clocks going forward.
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Police say they had to enforce the law after 1am when the clocks went forward an hour.
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When the clocks go back in late October it will be dark by five o'clock in the afternoon.
the going rate/price/salary etc
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A million pounds is the going rate for an ordinary player in today's inflationary market.
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At the going rate of half a million dollars per minute, there is no time for truth.
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It typically is charged twice the going rate as the criminal inmates housed in the same facility.
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One can of C rations was the going rate.
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Or holiday-depending if he's got the brains to get the going rate on betrayal.
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State law now prohibits insurers from denying coverage to small businesses or charging them more than 20 percent above the going rate.
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What is the going rate for bodies in Cairo, Mr el Zaki?
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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
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All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.
watch the world go by
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In this little village you can still sit in the town café and watch the world go by.
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Anonymous, watching the world go by for a moment.
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Did Victorine have a favorite cafe from which she watched the world go by?
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It's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by.
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Or simply relax and watch the world go by.
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Plenty have terraces from which to watch the world go by accompanied by a hot waffle or a glass of beer.
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The George Street precinct is a great place to pause, enjoy the frequent street entertainment and watch the world go by.
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This is not a place to stand and stare, or to sit and watch the world go by.
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When we were lads Walton's doorway was where we always used to stand and watch the world go by.
way to go!
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Way to go, Kim! Now we'll have to start all over again.
what sb says goes
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I'm in charge here and what I say goes.
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I look up to my brother, what he says goes with me, so that really hurt.
work/run/go like stink
you can't go wrong (with sth)
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You can't go wrong with a dark gray suit.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the end I had to have a go !
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The rest of the story is that my great-grandfather could never really make a go of his life after that.
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You told me you're good at most sports, so you'd better just try and give it a go .