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A familiar term for a university examination for degrees: the “previous examination” being the “Little Go.”

“Great Go” is usually shortened into “Greats.”

“Since I have been reading … for my greats. I have had to go into all sorts of deep books.”—Grant Allen: The Backslider, part iii.

 

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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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Grease One’s Fist or Palm (To)
Greasy Sunday
Great (The)
Great Bullet-head
Great Captain
Great Cham of Literature
Great Commoner (The)
Great Cry and Little Wool
Great Dauphin
Great Elector (The)
Great Go
Great Harry (The)
Great Head
Great Men
Great Men (Wives of)
Great Mogul
Great Mother
Great Perhaps (The)
Great Scott or Scot!
Great Sea (The)
Great Unknown (The)

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