go west

1. 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

Then on Jan. 12, 2023, Yoho’s company registered to do business in South Dakota under the name Go West Media.

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Sheahan, now the second-in-command at ICE, was paid up to $25,000 by Go West in 2023 for “consulting,” according to a financial disclosure document Sheahan later filed.

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The BSA Goldstar which featured in the BBC's Hairy Bikers Go West went under the hammer at the National Motorcycle Museum near Solihull, and sold for £15,800, in aid of two charities.

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Abu Daqqa was urging the family to go west, but Ayat was resisting.

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The BSA Goldstar he rode in the BBC's Hairy Bikers Go West is due to be auctioned in March, with all the money going to charity.

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Related Words

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