go steady
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She agrees to go steady with a boy, someone she, in accordance with local custom, completely ignores in school.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020
"I knew I had to go steady and think smart for a change, because I didn't do that in London last year."
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2016
Before their second date, he delivered what she calls “a twenty-five-minute monologue on why we should go steady, with a full intellectual decision tree in anticipation of my own decision tree.”
From The New Yorker ● May 11, 2015
The proper course of courtship was to go steady, become pinned, then engaged.
From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2010
I mean, sure, we had fusses—everybody does, all the kids that go steady.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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