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Phrase(s): go on before (someone) 1. Lit. to precede someone. • Please go on before me. I will follow. • She went on before. 2. Euph. to die before someone. • Uncle Herman went on before Aunt Margaret by a few years. • He went before her, although we had all thought it would be the other way around.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs