great go
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of great go
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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“We’d love to see something great go into that space,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2017
If that could potentially include this guy, great, go for it.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2017
“You like to see two guys that are great go head-to-head on the mound and figure out how to manufacture a run, how to get a run to win a game.”
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2015
“Everybody I went to said, ‘Sounds great, go for it,’ ” he said in one of several interviews last week.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2010
His "little one-act thing" is stodgy and slow, But the Pit is good-natured, the youth's in a glow, And he thinks—with some "cuts"—it will be "a great go," At night, at night!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 3, 1892 by Various
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