go west

Idioms and Phrases

Die, as in He declared he wasn't ready to go west just yet . This expression has been ascribed to a Native American legend that a dying man goes to meet the setting sun. However, it was first recorded in a poem of the early 1300s: “Women and many a willful man, As wind and water have gone west.”

Example Sentences

It had been his intention before arriving there, to arraign his wife again for having let Orlean go West in the beginning.

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You know—or maybe you didn't know—but the Missionary Society have been packing a barrel to go West.

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The failure to find a firm to stand sponsor for his book discouraged Whitman to the extent of planning to go West and pioneer.

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If—if I should "go west" I want you to write her and tell her that my last thoughts were of my country and—her.

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When you leave school, you may go West and search for your mine, for it certainly belongs to you now.

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Related Words

• betray
• bolt
• depart
• escape
• flee
• forsake
• give up
• quit
• vacate