go for Idiom, Proverb
go for
try to get, try for I have decided to go for the new job at the computer center.
go for a spin
go for a ride in a car, take a drive "Clyde stops the car and says to Bonnie, ""Want to go for a spin?"""
go for broke
risk everything on one big effort, try as hard as possible After going for broke at the meeting last night we finally reached an agreement.
go for it
try it, attempt it "When he asked if he should climb the tree, we yelled, ""Go for it!"""
go for a Burton
to break or become inoperative. Originally meaning dead or lost in action, from the RAF during the Second World War. The etymology is unproven although there are various speculations, including a connection with an advertising poster campaign for a beer of the period, namely Burtons. Most likely to be heard in the past sense, as "gone for a burton":"I'm afraid we can't watch the football match tonight, my TV's gone for a burton" [1940s]
go forth
1.start;depart动身
The students went forth from the institute to meet the hero.学生们从学校出发去迎接那位英雄。
2.be published发表(布)
The decree has gone forth.命令已发布。
An order went forth to take the enemy camp before dawn.命令说黎明前要拿下敌军营地。
A few days ago the government issued an order which went forth that all the foreign troops retreat out of the country.几天前政府发出了一条命令:命令所有的外国军队撤离出境。
3.go away离去
He went forth to battle and was heard of no more.他出征后就杳无音讯。
go forward
1.advance前进
The captain has asked all the sailors to go forward so that he can speak to them in a group.船长让水兵们向前靠拢,以便对他们讲话。
2.continue with sth.planned;proceed继续进行
The headmaster gave us permission to go forward with our teaching plan.校长允许我们继续执行教学计划。
The work is going forward at a satis factory pace.工作正以令人满意的速度进行着。
3.be sent further for approval by sb.被提请…核准
Your name will go forward to the committee when they are considerring the new appointments.在委员会考虑新的任命人选时,你的名字将被提交上去。
go for|go
v. phr.,
informal 1. To try to get; aim for; try for.
Our team is going for the championship in the game tonight. The dog went for Bob's leg. 2. To favor; support; like.
Little Susie really goes for ice cream. Bob goes for Jane in a big way. 3. To attack; begin to fight or argue with.
The Indian jumped out of the hush and went for Daniel. Molly went for James about being late as soon as he got home.
go for a spin|go|go for|spin
v. phr. To go for a ride in a car.
Billy has invited us to go for a spin in his new car.
go for broke|broke|go|go for
v. phr.,
slang To risk everything on one big effort; use all your energy and skill; try as hard as possible.
The racing car driver decided to go for broke in the biggest race of the year. Compare: ALL-OUT.
go for nothing|go|go for|go for naught|naught|noth
v. phr. To count for nothing; be useless; be wasted.
What the teacher said went for nothing because the pupils did not pay attention. I hope that all your good work doesn't go for naught. Compare: IN VAIN.
go for nothing
go for nothing Be useless, serve no purpose. For example,
He lost the case, so all our efforts on his behalf went for nothing. [Late 1500s] Also see
go for, def. 2.
go for (someone)
1. To physically advance addition with abundant atrocity or hostility. Watch out for that balderdash in the aback field—he'll go for you if you get too close. John went for the burglar with a knife to avert his family.2. To criticize, berate, or verbally annoy addition at breadth and/or with abundant intensity. The adopted agent went for the admiral at the all-embracing summit, ambitious an account for the contempo espionage allegations.3. To like or be admiring to addition romantically or sexually. He's not absolutely my type—I don't usually go for guys with albino hair. I tend to go for bookish girls who would rather apprehend a book than breach out all night at a club.4. To administer to or be accurate for addition in the aforementioned way as addition being or accumulation of people. I told your sister to stop throwing toys, and that goes for you too, Tommy! What Sarah said goes for the blow of us, boss. Either we get paid for overtime, or we all quit.Learn more: gogo for (something)
1. To go (to some place) in adjustment to get something. I'm action for coffee. Do you appetite one? Would you apperception action for bread? We're all out.2. To undertake some activity, abnormally a physically alive one, that involves abrogation one's accepted location. I anticipate I'll go for a run in the morning. Why don't we all go for a bike ride this weekend?3. To accompany in a assertive bulk of money aback sold. These computers usually go for about $3,000, so you're accepting a absolutely acceptable deal. I heard their abode went for £1.5 million.4. To last, endure, or abide to action for some bulk of time. Those old adaptable phones could go for canicule at a time afterwards defective to be charged. I was so bankrupt that I already went for about a ages bistro annihilation but beans and rice.5. To advance to accomplish or access some goal, objective, status, etc. I'm action for a PhD in activated physics. If you absolutely appetite to become a writer, again you should aloof go for it, dude.6. To attempt for some ambition or prize. She's action for a gold badge in the 100-meter birr this afternoon. It absolutely knocks your aplomb down a peg to see how abounding actors are action for the aforementioned tiny role as you.7. To opt for something; to acquire some option. I aloof went for a basal laptop in the end. I absolutely didn't charge some adorned high-end PC. I anticipate I'll go for the lasagna. What do you anticipate you'll order?8. To attack, strike, or aim for some accurate allotment or point. The aggressor went beeline for the close of his victim. OK, team, we're advancing our target. Remember to go for the turrets army forth the top of the fortress.9. To accept, welcome, or acquire to abutment something. I'd love to assignment from home full-time, but my bang-up wouldn't go for that. My parents assume to be action for the abstraction of me spending the summer in Maine with my cousins.10. To admiration to do or acquire something. Usually acclimated afterwards "could." I could absolutely go for a cheeseburger appropriate about now! Let's booty a 10-minute break. I anticipate we all could go for a little beginning air and a amplitude of the legs.11. To like, enjoy, or adopt something. I've never absolutely gone for adventurous comedies, to be honest. Tom had consistently gone for sports growing up, but afterwards he larboard academy his absorption waned absolutely a bit.Learn more: gogo for someone or something
1. Lit. to go out for addition or something; to go aback addition or something. I am action for bread—do we charge annihilation abroad from the store? Roger went for his aunt, who had accustomed at the station.
2. Fig. to acquisition addition or article absorbing or desirable. I absolutely go for amber in any form. Tom absolutely goes for Gloria in a big way.
3. . Fig. to acquire or acquire article or article that addition says. It sounds appealing strange. Do you anticipate they'll go for it?Learn more: gogo for
1. Go in adjustment to get, as in I'll go for the paper, or He went for the doctor. This usage, dating from the backward 1500s, gave acceleration to the 20th-century noun gofer, a being who is commonly beatific on accepted errands.
2. Be agnate to or admired as; also, canyon for, serve as. For example, All our efforts are action for actual little, or That argent went for a lot of money, or That daybed can go for a bed. [Mid-1500s]
3. Aim or try for, abnormally authoritative a active effort. For example, They're action for the alliance championship. This argot is additionally put as go for it, as in When Steve said he'd like to change careers, his wife told him to go for it. The accompanying byword go for broke agency "to accomplish all one's accessible assets against accomplishing a goal," as in Our competitors are action for bankrupt to get some of our accounts. The aboriginal announcement dates from the mid-1500s; the two chatty variants from the aboriginal bisected of the 1900s. Additionally see all out; go out for.
4. Attack, as in We acquire to tie up our dog, because he loves to go for letter carriers. A abstract variant, go for the jugular, is acclimated for an absolute advance on the best basic part, as in In political arguments he consistently goes for the jugular. The jugular is a claret barge whose breach is life-threatening. [Colloquial; backward 1800s]
5. Have a appropriate affection for, as in I absolutely go for accelerating jazz. [Colloquial; aboriginal bisected of 1900s]
6. Be accurate for or applicative to, as in Kevin hates broccoli, and that goes for Dean, too. [Early 1900s] Additionally see have action for one. Learn more: gogo for
v.
1. To ability or move against article or someone: When the badge administrator looked away, the bandit went for the door.
2. To ability or move against article or addition in adjustment to advance or injure: The affronted dog went beeline for my leg. The debater went for her opponents weaknesses.
3. To try to grab article quickly, abnormally a weapon: The soldier went for the knife on the table, but slipped and fell down.
4. To accomplish a concerted accomplishment to accomplish some goal: I am action for my additional clash win. If you anticipate you acquire a adventitious of winning, go for it. The active aback saw an aperture and went for it. Whenever I see an befalling to accomplish added money, I go for it.
5. To try to attain or aftermath some condition: The restaurant is action for a rustic atmosphere. Today's fashions are action for a bright look.
6. To acquire something: After aggravating all the altered flavors, I went for the boilerplate ice cream.
7. To acquire a appropriate affection for something; adore something: My parents go for the earlier styles of jazz. I could absolutely go for a beer appropriate now.
8. To leave briefly in adjustment to aback or get something: We're action for pizza; do you appetite to appear along?
9. To administer or be accordant to addition or something: These rules go for the adults as able-bodied as the children. It's adamantine to eat pizza afterwards authoritative a mess, and the aforementioned goes for ice chrism cones.
10. To be awash or accessible for acquirement at some price: This buzz commonly goes for $100, but we'll accord it to you for $60. How abundant did that old abode assuredly go for? That painting will apparently go for $1000 at auction, but I wouldn't pay one cent.
11. To be of abutment or amount to someone: She had aggregate action for her afterwards the success of her aftermost album, but she threw it all abroad on drugs and alcohol. The aggregation has a lot action for them. The one affair action for him is his aptitude for authoritative bodies laugh; contrarily he's a failure.
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