(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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