G
Idioms beginning with "G"
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Contents of G:
[go with] {v.}
1. To match; to look good with.
A yellow blouse goes with her blonde hair.
The woman bought a purse to go with her new shoes.
2. To go out in the company of.
Tom goes with the girl who lives across the street.
[go without saying] {v. phr.}
To be too plain to need talking about; not be necessary to say or mention.
It goes without saying that children should not be given knives to play with.
* /A person with weak eyes should wear glasses. That goes […]
[go wrong] {v. phr.}
1. To fail; go out of order.
Something went wrong with our car and we stalled on the road.
2. To sink into an immoral or criminal existence.
In a large city many young people go wrong every year.
[go-between] {n.}
An intermediary.
They expect Mr. Smith to act as a go-between in the dispute between management and labor.
[go-getter] {n.}
A person who works hard to become successful; an active, ambitious person who usually gets what he wants.
The governor of the state has always been a go-getter.
The best salesmen are the go-getters.
[go-go] {adj.}, {slang}, {informal}
1. Vigorous youthful, unusually active.
Joe is a go-go kind of guy.
2. Of a discotheque or the music or dances performed there.
3a. Unrestrained.
3b. Very up-to-date, hip.
* /Mary wore handsome go-go boots […]
[goal line] {n.}
A line that marks the goal in a game (as football.)
The fullback went over the goal line from five yards out.