Go to bat
verb phrase
To be tried for a crime (1940s+ Underworld)
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- Go to bed with someone
verb phrase To do the sex act with someone; SLEEP WITH someone (1940s+)
- Go to bat against
verb phrase Oppose; contend against: None of her victims would go to bat against her (1940s+)
- Go to blazes
sentence go to hell (1853+)
- Go to denmark
verb phrase To have a sex-change operation; become a transsexual [1960s+; fr the fact that such operations were originally done primarily in Denmark]
- Go-to-guy
noun the person on a team that is relied upon to score; also called go-to player Examples Kyle is the go-to guy on the basketball team. Usage Note slang