G
Idioms beginning with "G"
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Contents of G:
[gloss over] {v.}
To try to make what is wrong or bad seem right or not important; try to make a thing look easy; pretend about; hide.
* /Billy broke a window and Mother tried to gloss it over by saying it wouldn't cost much to have it fixed, but […]
[glutton for punishment] {n. phr.}
A greedy person; someone who wants too much of something, such as food or drink, which will make him sick.
Fred eats so much red meat that he is a regular glutton for punishment.
[go]
See:
[HERE GOES],
[HERE GOES NOTHING],
[BEST BIB AND TUCKER] or [SUNDAY-GO-TO-MEETING CLOTHES],
[COMINGS AND GOINGS],
[EASY COME EASY GO],
[GET GOING],
[GET-UP-AND-GO]
[HAVE A GO AT],
[HEART GOES OUT TO],
[KNOW WHETHER ONE IS COMING OR […]
[go about] {v.}
1. To be busy with; keep busy at or working on; start working on; do.
Bobby is going about his homework very seriously tonight.
Just go about your business and don't keep looking out of the window.
* /How will you go about […]
[go about one's business] {v. phr.}
To mind one's own affairs.
Fred kept bothering me with his questions all day, so I finally told him to go about his business and leave me alone.
[go after] {v.}
To try to get.
"First find out what job you want and then go after it," said Jim's father.