GO AND Definition & Meaning

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This phrase is an intensifier, that is, it heightens the action indicated by the verb that follows it. For example, Don't go and eat all the leftover chicken is stronger than “Don't eat all the leftover chicken.” Similarly, Thomas Gray put it in a letter (1760): “But now she has gone ... and married that Monsieur de Wolmar.” Sometimes the and is omitted, as in Go tell Dad dinner is ready , or Go fly a kite , colloquial imperatives telling someone to do something. [c. 1300]

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"This robotic nature of not leaving our positions, being micro-managed within an inch of our lives, not having any freedom to take a risk to go and try and win a football match is becoming an illness in the game," lamented Neville.

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Lyle: It really is where the story wants to take us, where we always thought it would go, and where it feels like it wants to go.

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“Didn’t really know where to go, and since JT had an issue on the green, I’m like, ‘I’m just going to sneak here in the river and probably people would not see me that much,’ and then they clapped for me.

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He said there were "bound to be people" annoyed by the noise, but that he and his family were going to go and see it again.

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But the flame was small and contained, only burning away what needed to go and keeping everything else intact.

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