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there we go

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idiom

  1. (used when an action has had the desired or expected effect).


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"We don't sit around there we go along and then come back again," she said.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2025

I had my gallbladder removed last year because I had gallstones—another quite unsexy thing for me to have to disclose, but there we go: The body is full of vile wonders.

From Slate Jul. 26, 2025

“When I saw she had bought herself a big-girl house, I thought, well, there we go, she’s accepted adulthood.”

From New York Times Apr. 27, 2022

I read something and think, there we go again.

From Salon Feb. 9, 2022

And there we go skittering close beside the house.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

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