Go fishing
verb phrase
To undertake a search for facts, esp by a legal or quasi-legal process like a grand-jury investigation (1960+)
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- Go flatline
verb phrase To die: In the ambulance he went flatline (1980s+) Related Terms flatline [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also “flatlined”. 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes […]
- Go for all the marbles
verb phrase go for broke: He goes for all the marbles (1970s+)
- Go for nothing
Be useless, serve no purpose. For example, He lost the case, so all our efforts on his behalf went for nothing. [ Late 1500s ] Also see: go for, def. 2.
- Go forth
verb (intransitive, adverb) (archaic or formal) 1. to be issued: the command went forth that taxes should be collected 2. to go out: the army went forth to battle
- Go for the fences
verb phrase To try to make long base hits, esp home runs; slug (1970s+ Baseball)