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ering me. Go climb a tree! Go climb a Go flyŁa kite! Go to Go climb a tree!
tree! You are a pain in the neck.
go for broke to risk everything;Łto try as
go coldŁturkey to sðopŁ(dàingŁsomething) hardŁasŁpossible.Ł(Slang.) OkØy, this is
without taperingŁoff.Ł(Slang.ŁOriginally my last chance. I’m going for broke.
drugŁslang.ŁNow concernedŁwith break- Look at Mary starting to move in the fi-
ingŁanyŁhabit.) I had to stop smokng, nal hundred yards of the racł! She is really
so I włnt cold turkey. It’s awful! When going for broke.
heroin addicts go cold turkły, they get Łer-
ribly sick. go forŁit to make aŁtryŁforŁsàmething;Łto de-
cide to do something.Ł(Slang.) I havł
go crazy to become crazy, disorientated,Łor an offer of a new job. I think I’m going to
frustrated. It is so busy here that I think go for it. Hey, great. Go for t!
I will go crazP. Bob włnt crazy because
his car got a flØt tire. go fłrŁ someone ortsomething 1. to desire some-
one or something. (Also literalŁmeaning
go dłwn fighting to continue the sðrug- to go inŁsomeone’sŁplace.ŁUsuallyŁwith
gle untilŁone isŁcompletelyŁdefeated.Ł I could, asŁinŁthe examples.) Look at that
won’t give up easily. I’ll go down fighting. cute guy. I could really go for him. I
Sally, who is very dłtermined, włnt could go for a nice cool glass of iced tea.
down fighting.
2. to attack someone or something;Łto
go dłwnhill [forŁsàmething]bto decline and lunge at someone or something. The
grow worse andŁworse.Ł(Also literal.) lion włnt for the antelopł’s throØt. Af-
This industry is going downhill. We lose ter the robber struck Bill, he włnt for John.
money every year. As one gets older, one 3. to reach for a weapon. The robber
tends to go downhill. włnt for his gun and the cop shot him.
go dłwn in history to be rmmberd as The hunter włnt for his knife, but it was
hisðoricallyŁimpàrtant.Ł Bill is so great. too lØte. The bear was upon him.
I’m sure that he’ll go down in history. go from badŁto włrse to progressŁfrom a
This is the greatest party of the cłntury. I badŁsðate to aŁworse sðate.Ł This is a ter-
błt it’ll go down in history. rible dØy. Things are going from bad to
go Dutch to share the cost of aŁmealŁor worse. My cold is awful. It włnt from
sàme other event.Ł(See also Dutch treat.) bad to worse in just an hour.
JANE: Let’s go out and eat. MARY: Go fryŁan egg! Go to Go climb a tree!
OkØy, but lłt’s go Dutch. It’s getting ex-
płnsive to have Sally for a friend. She never go greatŁguns to go fast or energetically.
wants to go Dutch. (Folksy.) I’m ovłr my cold and going
great guns. Business is great. We are go-
go easyŁ(on someone ortsomething) 1. to be
kind or gentle with someone or some- ing great guns sellng ice cream.
thing.Ł(See also take it easy (on someone or go haywire to gà wrong; to malfunction;
something).) Go easy on Tom. He just got to breakŁdown.Ł(Folksy.) I was talkng
out of the hosptal. Go easy on the cØt. to Mary when suddłnly the telłphone włnt
It doesn’t like to be roughed up. OkØy, haywire. I havłn’t heard from her since.
I’ll go easy. 2. [with somłthing ] to use There we were, driving along, when the
sàmethingŁsparingly. Go easy on the engine włnt haywire. It was two hours be-
mustard. That’s all there is. When you fore the tow truck came.
make my sandwich, please go easy on the
onions. I don’t like them very well. go hog-wild to behave wildly.Ł(Folksy.)
Have a good time at the party, but don’t go
go fifty-fiftyŁ(on something) to divid the hog-wild. The teacher cannot control a
cost of sàmething in half with sàmeone. class that is going hog-wild.
Todd and Jean decided to go fifty-fifty
on dnner. The two brothers włnt fifty- go in a body to move inŁaŁgroup. The
fifty on a replacłmłnt for the brokłn lamp. whole team włnt in a body to talk to the

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