go and

1. This phrase is an intensifier, that is, it heightens the action indicated by the verb that follows it. For example, Don't go and eat all the leftover chicken is stronger than “Don't eat all the leftover chicken.” Similarly, Thomas Gray put it in a letter (1760): “But now she has gone ... and married that Monsieur de Wolmar.” Sometimes the and is omitted, as in Go tell Dad dinner is ready, or Go fly a kite, colloquial imperatives telling someone to do something. [c. 1300]

Example Sentences

Having picked up a ball at Maidenhead at age five then moving to play for Reading, some of her core memories growing up are with sister Ruth and brother Chris playing on different pitches and then begging their parents "for the one pound to go and buy the chips at the clubhouse".

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Most grabbed small handfuls of items, such as prepared foods to go and drinks.

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And, really, the well-to-do of California and the rest of the world would never go and pick their own strawberries.

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"I just thought, you know what, just go and enjoy your football. I've always said I perform better when I enjoy it."

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"When I then got the news about my grandad, that gave me that extra push to go and show everyone what I can do because that was our dream together," she said.

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