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Go

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(Anglo-Saxon, gān, ic gā, I go.)

Here’s a go or Here’s a pretty go. Here’s a mess or awkward state of affairs.

It is no go. It is not workable. “Ça ira,” in the French Revolution (it will go), is a similar phrase.

(See Great Go, and Little Go.)

 

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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.

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Gloves
Glubdubdrib
Gluckist and Piccinists
Glum
Glumdalclitch
Glutton (The)
Gluttony
Gnatho
Gnomes
Gnostics
Go
Go (The)
Go along with You
Go-between (A)
Go-by
Go it Blind
Go it, Warwick!
Go it, you Cripples!
Go of Gin
Go on all Fours
Go out (To)