go away

verb

1. intr, adverb to leave, as when starting from home on holiday

Idioms and Phrases

Depart, leave a place, travel somewhere. For example, They went away this morning , or Are you going away this winter? This expression also can be used as an imperative ordering someone to leave: Go away! It can also be used figuratively to mean “disappear,” as in This fever just doesn't go away . [c. 1200]

Example Sentences

And now to this list of New York pols who refuse to go away, it may be possible to add another name: Vito Fossella.

From The Daily Beast

We can go away tomorrow, and the environment will forget about our existence.

From The Daily Beast

“Go away, you have your own clothes,” she laughingly recalls telling him, as he tried to buy some pieces at an early launch.

From The Daily Beast

I just wanted to work, and thought it was a fad that would go away.

From The Daily Beast

“In a perfect world, we snap our fingers and our problems go away,” Colter says.

From The Daily Beast

It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.

From Project Gutenberg

Up jumped Nquing from his burrow in the spinifex and shouted, "Go away!"

From Project Gutenberg

If I felt that I could leave her in your charge, all on the square, as a real straight pal—I should go away happy.

From Project Gutenberg

This time it was she who was begging him to go away and leave her, and he was forced to comfort her all through the night.

From Project Gutenberg

When we get through the pigs the rest of the pig-men will go away, and the cow-men show us their cows.

From Project Gutenberg

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