go to Idiom

go to any trouble

go to bat for

go to great lengths/ go to any lengths

go to hell

go to hell in a handbasket

go to one

go to one's head

go to pieces

go to pot

go to rack and ruin

go to town

go to trouble

go to your head

go too far

let it go to your head

go toe to toe

go to any go to great lengths

go to any length/go to great lengths

go to any length to great lengths

go to press

go to the dogs

go to the trouble

go to waste

take/go to the trouble

go together

HARMONY

[for two things] to look, sound, or taste good together.
• Do you think that this pink one and this purple one go together?
• Milk and grapefruit don't go together.

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go to the wall

Idiom(s): go to the wall

Theme: FAILURE

to be defeated; to fail in business. (Informal.)
• We really went to the wall on that deal.
• The company went to the wall because of that contract. Now it's broke.

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go to the expense

Idiom(s): go to the expense (of doing sth)

Theme: MONEY

to pay the (large) cost of doing something.
• I hate to have to go to the expense of painting the house.
• It needs to be done, so you'll have to go to the expense.

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go to the bathroom

Idiom(s): go to the bathroom (2)

Theme: BATHROOM

2. to go into a rest room, bathroom, or toilet.
• BILL: Where is Bob? JANE: He went to the bathroom.
• John went to the bathroom to brush his teeth.

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go to hell in a hand-basket

Idiom(s): go to hell in a hand-basket

Theme: RUIN

to become totally worthless; to go to (hell). (Informal. Use hell with caution. Not used as a command.)
• The whole country is going to hell in a hand-basket.
• Look at my lawn—full of weeds. It's going to hell in a hand-basket.

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go to Davy Jones's locker

Idiom(s): go to Davy Jones's locker

Theme: DEPTH

to go to the bottom of the sea. (Thought of as a nautical expression.)
• My camera fell overboard and went to Davy Jones's locker.
• My uncle was a sailor. He went to Davy Jones's locker during a terrible storm.

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go to bed with the chickens

Idiom(s): go to bed with the chickens

Theme: EARLY

to go to bed at sundown; to go to bed very early (when the chickens do).
• Of course I get enough sleep. I go to bed with the chickens.
• Mr. Brown goes to bed with the chickens and gets up with them, too.

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go to any length

Idiom(s): go to any length

Theme: NEED

to do whatever is needed.
• I'll go to any length to secure this contract.
• I want to get a college degree, but I won't go to any length to get one.

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go to wrack and ruin

Idiom(s): go to rack and ruin AND go to wrack and ruin

Theme: RUIN

to go to ruin. (The words rack and wrack mean "wreckage" and are found only in this expression. Fixed order.)
• That lovely old house on the corner is going to go to rack and ruin.
• My lawn is going to wrack and ruin.

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go to the devil

Idiom(s): go to (hell) AND go to (the devil)

Theme: RUIN

to become ruined; to go away and stop bothering (someone). (Informal. Use hell with caution.)
• This old house is just going to hell. It's falling apart everywhere.
• Leave me alone! Go to the devil!
• Oh, go to, yourself!

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go to seed

Idiom(s): run to seed AND go to seed

Theme: DETERIORATION

to become worn-out and uncared for. (Said especially of a lawn that needs care.)
• Look at that lawn. The whole thing has run to seed.
• Pick things up around here. This place is going to seed. What a mess!

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go to bed

Idiom(s): go all the way (with someone) AND go to bed (with someone)

Theme: SEX

to have sexual intercourse with someone. (Euphemistic. Use with caution.)
• If you go all the way, you stand a chance of getting pregnant.
• I've heard that they go to bed all the time.

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Go to the wire

If someone goes to the wire, they risk their life, job, reputation, etc, to help someone.

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go to|go

v. To be ready to do; start doing something. When Jack went to write down the telephone number, he had forgotten it.

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go to any length|go|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.

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go to bat for|bat|go

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.
Synonym: STAND UP FOR.

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go to bed with the chickens|bed|chickens|go|go to

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.

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go to it!|go

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.

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go to one's head|go|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.

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go to pieces|go|pieces|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.

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go to pot|go|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.

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go to seed|go|run|run to seed|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.

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go to show|go|go to prove|prove|show

v. phr., informal 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.

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go to the chair|chair|go

v. phr. To be executed in the electric chair. After many stays of execution, the criminal finally had to go to the chair.

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go to the devil|devil|go

v. phr., informal 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.

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go to the dogs|dogs|go

v. phr., informal 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

1. obsolete An announcement of disapproval, disbelief, indignation, etc. Go to, you knave! Your accusations authority no weight here!2. obsolete An announcement of advance or support. That's it, my friend—go to!Learn more: go

go to (someone or something)

1. verb To appointment addition or something. Do you appetite to go to the capital this afternoon? I'm action to Caitlin's abode afterwards school.2. verb To allocution about something, usually article ambiguous or troubling, with someone. I go to my mom with all my problems. If the salesman won't booty your complaints seriously, go to a supervisor.3. verb To be acclimated against or included as a basic of something, generally an aftereffect or result. I larboard them $20 to go to the check. Every appointment goes to your brand for the semester, you know.4. verb To alpha some assignment or activity. If you're accessible to mow the lawn, don't let me stop you—go to it.5. verb To appear something. She loves action to the movies on the weekend. Sorry, I charge to go to chic soon, so I can't come.6. verb To accommodated with addition for a specific purpose. You absolutely care to go to a doctor about that issue. I'm cerebration of action to a mortgage agent to amount out how abundant I charge to be extenuative anniversary ages in adjustment to buy a house.7. verb To be enrolled in some academy as a student. I can't accept I'll be action to Harvard abutting month! He's action to a association academy at the moment, but he's acquisitive to alteration to the University of Louisville abutting year.8. verb To be awarded to someone. This is the third year in a row that the gold badge has gone to Masahiro Yamaoka, from Osaka. I'm sorry, Jake. You had a abundant interview, but the advance is action to Karen.9. adjective Describing one who is accepted to be accessible or reliable for a assertive assignment or goal. When acclimated as an adjective, the byword is about hyphenated. Shannon is my go-to being for accident planning, so she will absolutely be able to advice you acquisition a caterer.10. adjective Describing a actual accepted abode (for some purpose or accurate affectionate of people). The byword is about hyphenated in this usage. Our abundance is the city's go-to area for all things Halloween. The island of Ibiza has been the go-to destination for partiers from about the world.Learn more: go

go to!

1. ancient An assertion of surprise, disbelief, or protest. Go to, my friend! Whence shall we acquisition such a affair at this hour? Go to, you ask far added than I am able to pay!2. ancient An acute to activate or set forth. Go to and bear my bulletin to the agents of this land.Learn more: go

go to someone or something

to biking to or against addition or something. We went to her as anon as she alleged adage she bare us. Are you action to the bank?Learn more: go

go to someone

(about addition or something) to altercate one's problems with addition or article with addition else. I went to the bang-up about the new secretary. This is a absolute problem. I'll accept to go to the manager.Learn more: go

Go to!

Inf. Go to hell! Oh, you're terrible. Just go to! Go to, you creep!Learn more: go

go to

1. See going to.
2. Also, go toward. Contribute to a result, as in Can you name the basic that go to accomplish the accoutrements and legs? or The administrator has a acceptable eye for seeing what will go against an absolute scene. [c. 1600]
3. Begin, start, as in By the time she went to call, she'd abandoned what she capital to say. The accompanying argot go to it agency "get started, get going." P.G. Wodehouse acclimated it in Louder & Funnier (1932): "Stoke up and go to it." [First bisected of 1700s] Learn more: go

Go to!

exclam. Go to hell! Oh, you’re terrible. Just go to! Learn more: go

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