Go to!

A curtailed oath. “Go to the devil!” or some such phrase.

“Cassius: I [am] ablef than yourself

To make conditions.

Brutus: Go to! You are not, Cassius.ʹ

Shakespeare: Julius Cœsar, iv. 3.

Go to Banff, and bottle skate.

Go to Bath, and get your head shaved.

Go to Bungay, and get your breeches mended.

Go to Coventry. Make yourself scarce.

Go to Hexham. A kind of Alsatia or sanctuary in the reign of Henry VIII.

Go to Jericho. Out of the way. (See Jericho.) And many other similar phrases.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.