don't go there
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Having a beach key, she said, “doesn’t feel like a club, because you don’t go there to socialize with other people—but it feels like an incredible thing to have.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
“These are mental-health professionals — but you don’t go there for therapy, you go to develop a parenting plan,” she says.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
“It’s an amazing country. If I don’t go there every few years, I go quite strange in the head. I need it,” Locke said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
“He was like, ‘Now, Mayor, don’t go there on giving Governor Northam a hard time.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2022
“She’ll come out here if you don’t go there first,” he said, and I knew he was right.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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