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[go straight] , To become an honest person; lead an honest life. * /After the man got out of prison, he went straight./ * /Mr. Wright promised to go straight if the judge would let him go free./

[got a thing going] , , To be engaged in a pleasurable or profitable activity with someone else as a partner either in romance or in mutually profitable business. * /"You two seem to have got a thing going, haven't you?"/ * /"You've got a good thing going with your travel bureau, why quit now?"/

[go the rounds] To pass or be told from one person to another; spread among many people. * /There is a rumor going the rounds that Mr. Norton will be the new superintendent./ * /The story about Mr. Cox's falling into the lake is making the rounds./ Syn.: GO AROUND.

[go the whole hog] or [go whole hog] , To do something completely or thoroughly; to give all your strength or attention to something. * /When Bob became interested in model airplanes, he went the whole hog./ * /The family went whole hog at the fair, and spent a lot of money./ Compare: ALL OUT, ALL THE WAY, SHOOT THE WORKS.

[go through] 1. To examine or think about carefully; search. * /I went through the papers looking for Jane's letter./ * /Mother went through the drawer looking for the sweater./ Syn.: GO OVER. 2. To experience; suffer; live through. * /Frank went through many dangers during the war./ 3. To do what you are supposed to do; do what you promised. * /I went through my part of the bargain, but you didn't go through your part./ Syn.: CARRY OUT. 4. To go or continue to the end of; do or use all of. * /Jack went through the magazine quickly./ * /We went through all our money at the circus./ Syn.: RUN THROUGH. 5. To be allowed; pass; be agreed on. * /I hope the new law we want goes through Congress./ * /The sale of the store went through quickly./

[go through hell and high water] , To go through danger, or trouble. * /John is ready to go through hell and high water to help his chum./ * /The soldiers went through hell and high water to capture the fort./ Compare: COME HELL OR HIGH WATER, THROUGH THE MILL.

[go through the motions] To pretend to do something by moving or acting as if you were really doing it; do something without really trying hard or caring. * /Jane was angry because she couldn't go out, and when her mother said to dust her room she just went through the motions./ * /The team was so far behind in the game that they just went through the motions of playing at the end./

[go through with] To finish; do as planned or agreed; not stop or fail to do. * /The boys don't think Bob will go through with his plans to spend the summer at a camp./ * /Mr. Trent hopes the city won't go through with its plans to widen the street./ Syn.: CARRY OUT. Compare: CARRY THROUGH, LIVE UP TO.

[go to] To be ready to do; start doing something. * /When Jack went to write down the telephone number, he had forgotten it./

[go to any length] To do everything you can. * /Bill will go to any length to keep Dick from getting a date with Mary./ Compare: ALL-OUT.

[go to bat for] , To help out in trouble or need; give aid to. * /Everybody else thought Billy had broken the window, but Tom went to bat for him./ * /Mary went to bat for the new club program./ Syn.: STAND UP FOR.

[go to bed with the chickens] , To go to bed early at night. * /On the farm John worked hard and went to bed with the chickens./ * /Mr. Barnes goes to bed with the chickens because he has to get up at 5 A.M./

[go together] 1. To go with the same boy or girl all the time; date just one person. * /Herbert and Thelma go together./ Compare: GO STEADY, GO WITH(2), KEEP COMPANY. 2. To be suitable or agreeable with each other; match. * /Roast turkey and cranberries go together./ * /Ice cream and cake go together./ * /Green and yellow go together./

[go to great lengths] See: GO TO ANY LENGTH.

[go to hell] See: GO TO THE DEVIL.

[go to it!] An expression of encouragement meaning go ahead; proceed. * /"Go to it!" my father cried enthusiastically, when I told him I had decided to become a doctor./

[go to one's head] 1. To make one dizzy. * /Beer and wine go to a person's head./ * /Looking out the high window went to the woman's head./ 2. To make someone too proud; make a person think he is too important. * /Being the star player went to John's head./ * /The girl's fame as a movie actress went to her head./

[go to pieces] To become very nervous or sick from nervousness; become wild. * /Mrs. Vance went to pieces when she heard her daughter was in the hospital./ * /The man went to pieces when the judge said he would have to go to prison for life./ * /Mary goes to pieces when she can't have her own way./

[go to pot] , To be ruined; become bad; be destroyed. * /Mr. Jones' health has gone to pot./ * /The motel business went to pot when the new highway was built./ Compare: GO TO WRACK AND RUIN, GO TO THE DOGS.

[go to prove] See: GO TO SHOW.

[go to seed] or [run to seed] 1. To grow seeds. * /Onions go to seed in hot weather./ 2. To lose skill or strength; stop being good or useful. * /Sometimes a good athlete runs to seed when he gets too old for sports./ * /Mr. Allen was a good carpenter until he became rich and went to seed./

[go to show] or [go to prove] , To seem to prove; act or serve to show (a fact); demonstrate. - Often used after "it". * /Our team beat a bigger team, and it just goes to show you can win if you play hard enough./ * /The hard winter at Valley Forge goes to show that our soldiers suffered a great deal to win the Revolution./

[go to the chair] To be executed in the electric chair. * /After many stays of execution, the criminal finally had to go to the chair./

[go to the devil] , 1. To go away, mind your own business. - Used as a command; considered rude. * /George told Bob to go to the devil./ * /"Go to the devil!" said Jack, when his sister tried to tell him what to do./ 2. To become bad or ruined; become useless. * /The boy got mixed up with bad company and began to steal and rob his friends. He went to the devil./ * /Mr. Jones went to the devil after he lost his business./

[go to the dogs] , To go to ruin; to be ruined or destroyed. * /The man went to the dogs after he started drinking./ * /After the death of the owner, the business went to the dogs./ * /The team went to the dogs when its best players got hurt./ Compare: GO TO POT.

[go to the trouble] or [take the trouble] To make trouble or extra work for yourself; bother. * /John told Mr. Brown not to go to the trouble of driving him home./ * /Since your aunt took the trouble to get you a nice birthday present, the least you can do is to thank her./ Compare: PUT OUT(5).

[go to town] , 1. To do something quickly or with great force or energy; work fast or hard. * /The boys went to town on the old garage, and had it torn down before Father came home from work./ * /While Sally was slowly washing the dishes, she remembered she had a date with Pete that evening; then she really went to town./ Compare: IN NO TIME, MAKE TIME. Contrast: TAKE ONE'S TIME. 2. or [go places]. To do a good job; succeed. * /Our team is going to town this year. We have won all five games that we played./ * /Dan was a good student and a good athlete; we expect him to go places in business./

[go to waste] To be wasted or lost; not used. * /The strawberries went to waste because there was nobody to pick them./ * /Joe's work on the model automobile went to waste when he dropped it./ Compare: IN VAIN.

[go to wrack and ruin] To fall apart and be ruined; to become useless. * /The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved./ * /The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather./

[go under] 1. To be sunk. * /The ship hit an iceberg and went under./ 2. To fail; be defeated. * /The filling station went under because there were too many others on the street./

[go under the hammer] To be auctioned off. * /Our old family paintings went under the hammer when my father lost his job./

[go up] 1. To go or move higher; rise. * /Many people came to watch the weather balloon go up./ * /The path goes up the hill./ 2. To be able to become heard; become loud or louder. * /A shout went up from the crowd at the game./ 3. Grow in height while being built; to be built. * /The new church is going up on the corner./ 4. To increase. * /Prices of fruit and vegetables have gone up./

[go up in smoke] or [go up in flames] To burn; be destroyed by fire. 1. * /The house went up in flames./ * /The barn full of hay went up in smoke./ 2. Disappear; fail; not come true. * /Jane's hopes of going to college went up in smoke when her father lost his job./ * /The team's chances to win went up in smoke when their captain was hurt./

[go up in the air] To become angry; lose one's temper. * /Herb is so irritable these days that he goes up in the air for no reason at all./

[gourd] See: SAW WOOD or SAW GOURDS.

[go with] 1. To match; to look good with. * /A yellow blouse goes with her blonde hair./ * /The woman bought a purse to go with her new shoes./ 2. To go out in the company of. * /Tom goes with the girl who lives across the street./

[go without] See: DO WITHOUT.

[go without saying] To be too plain to need talking about; not be necessary to say or mention. * /It goes without saying that children should not be given knives to play with./ * /A person with weak eyes should wear glasses. That goes without saying./

[go wrong] 1. To fail; go out of order. * /Something went wrong with our car and we stalled on the road./ 2. To sink into an immoral or criminal existence. * /In a large city many young people go wrong every year./

[gown] See: TOWN AND GOWN.

[grab bag] 1. A bag from which surprise packages are chosen; a bag in which there are many unknown things. * /The woman paid a quarter for a chance at the grab bag./ * /The children brought packages to be sold from the grab bag at the school carnival./ 2. A group of many different things from which to choose; a variety. * /The TV program was a grab bag for young and old alike./

[grab off] , To take quickly; take or grab before anybody else can; choose for yourself. * /The people who got to the show first grabbed off the best seats./ * /The women hurried to the store to grab off the things on sale./ * /The prettiest girls at the dance were grabbed off for partners first./ Compare: SNAP UP.

[grabs] See: UP FOR GRABS.

[grace] See: FALL FROM GRACE, IN ONE'S BAD GRACES, IN ONE'S GOOD GRACES, WITH BAD GRACE, WITH GOOD GRACE.

[grace period] or [period of grace] The time or extra time allowed in which to do something. * /Most insurance companies have a grace period of one month for payments./ * /The teacher gave the class a week's period of grace to finish workbooks./

[grade] See: MAKE THE GRADE.

[grain] See: AGAINST THE GRAIN, TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT.

[grand slam] A home run hit when there are three men on the bases. * /Tony's grand slam won the game for the Yankees, 4-0./

[grandstand] , , To show off, to perform histrionics needlessly. * /Stop grandstanding and get down to honest work!/

[grandstander] , , A showoff, a person who likes to engage in histrionics. * /Many people think that Evel Knievel is a grandstander./

[granted] See: TAKE FOR GRANTED.

[grasp at straws] or [clutch at straws] To depend on something that is useless or unable to help in a time of trouble or danger; try something with little hope of succeeding. * /To depend on your memory without studying for a test is to grasp at straws./ * /The robber clutched at straws to make excuses. He said he wasn't in the country when the robbery happened./

[grass] See: LET GRASS GROW UNDER ONE'S FEET, SNAKE IN THE GRASS.

[grasshopper] See: KNEE-HIGH TO A GRASSHOPPER