Adam Makkai - Словарь американских идиом: 8000 единиц

[goose]See: COOK ONE’S GOOSE, FOX AND GEESE, KILL THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG, GONE GOOSE.

[goose bumps]or [goose pimples] {n. plural} , {informal} Small bumps that come on a person’s skin when he gets cold or afraid. •/ Nancy gets goose bumps when she sees a snake. / •/ Ann, put on your sweater; you’re so cold you have goose pimples on your arms. /

[go or drive to the wall]See: TO THE WALL.

[go out] {v. phr.} 1. To pass out of date or style. •/ Short skirts are gradually going out. / 2. To stop giving off light or burning. •/ Put more wood on the fire or it will go out. / 3. To leave. •/ When I called Sue, her mother said that she had just gone out. /

[go out for]or [come out for] {v. phr.} To try for a place on (an athletic team.) •/ Ten boys went out for track that spring. / •/ The coach asked Tom why he didn’t come out for basketball. /

[go out of business] {v. phr.} To cease functioning as a commercial enterprise. •/ The windows of the store are all boarded up because they went out of business. /

[go out of one’s way] {v. phr.} To make an extra effort; do more than usual. •/ Jane went out of her way to be nice to the new girl. / •/ Don did not like Charles, and he went out of his way to say bad things about Charles. / Compare: BEND OVER BACKWARD, KNOCK ONESELF OUT.

[go out the window] {v. phr.} , {informal} To go out of effect; be abandoned. •/ During the war, the school dress code went out the window. /

[go over] {v.} 1. To examine; think about or look at carefully. •/ The teacher went over the list and picked John’s name. / •/ The police went over the gun for fingerprints. / 2. To repeat; do again. •/ Don’t make me go all over it again. / •/ We painted the house once, then we went over it again. / 3. To read again; study. •/ After you finish the test, go over it again to look for mistakes. / •/ They went over their lessons together at night. / 4. To cross; go to stop or visit; travel. •/ We went over to the other side of the street. / •/ I’m going over to Mary’s house. / •/ We went over to the next town to the game. / 5. To change what you believe. •/ Father is a Democrat, but he says that he is going over to the Republicans in the next election. / •/ Many of the natives on the island went over to Christianity after the white men came. / 6. To be liked; succeed. — Often used in the informal phrase "go over big". •/ Bill’s joke went over big with the other boys and girls. / •/ Your idea went over well with the boss. /

[go over like a lead balloon] {v. phr.} , {informal} To fail to generate a positive response or enthusiasm; to meet with boredom or disapproval. •/ The president’s suggested budget cuts went over like a lead balloon. / •/ Jack’s off-color jokes went over like a lead balloon. /

[go over one’s head] {v. phr.} 1. To be too difficult to understand. •/ Penny complains that what her math teacher says simply goes over her head. / 2. To do something without the permission of one’s superior. •/ Fred went over his boss’s head when he signed the contract on his own. /

[go over with a fine-tooth comb]See: FINE-TOOTH COMB.

[gopher ball] {n.} , {slang} A baseball pitch that is hit for a home run. •/ The pitcher’s only weakness this year is the gopher ball. /

[go places]See: GO TO TOWN(2).

[go sit on a tack] {v.} , {slang} Shut up and go away; stop bothering. — Usually used as a command and considered rude. •/ Henry told Bill to go sit on a tack. / Compare: GO JUMP IN THE LAKE.

[gosling]See: GONE GOOSE also GONE GOSLING.

[go somebody one better] {v. phr.} , {informal} To do something better than (someone else); do more or better than; beat. •/ Bill’s mother gave the boys in Bill’s club hot dogs for refreshments, so Tom’s mother said that she would go her one better next time by giving them hot dogs and ice cream. / •/ John made a good dive into the water, but Bob went him one better by diving in backwards. /

[go stag] {v. phr.} 1. To go to a dance or party without a companion of the opposite sex. •/ When Sally turned him down, Tom decided to go stag to the college prom. / 2. To participate in a party for men only. •/ Mrs. Smith’s husband frequently goes stag, leaving her at home. /

[go steady] {v. phr.} To go on dates with the same person all the time; dale just one person. •/ At first Tom and Martha were not serious about each other, but now they are going steady. / •/ Jean went steady with Bob for a year; then they had a quarrel and stopped dating each other. / Syn.: KEEP COMPANY. Contrast: PLAY THE FIELD.

[go straight] {v. phr.} , {slang} 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] {v. phr.} , {slang} , {informal} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v.} 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] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v.} 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!] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v. phr.} 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. /