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Phrase(s): go over
Euph. to leave one’s country and go to ideologically opposed or enemy country; to defect. • When the ballet company visited New York, two of the dancers went over. • He had been spying for the Americans for many years, and he finally went over., Phrase(s): go over (well)
[for someone or something] to be accepted or well received. • The party went over very well. • The play really went over with the audience., Phrase(s): go over someone or something
to examine someone or something. • The doctor will go over you very carefully, I’m sure. • I went over the papers and found nothing wrong., Phrase(s): go over something (with someone)
to review or explain something. • The teacher went over the lesson with the class. • Can you please go over it again, more slowly?, Phrase(s): go over someone
Go to over someone.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Examine, review. For example, They went over the contract with great care, or I think we should go over the whole business again. This term originated in the late 1500s, then meaning "consider in sequence." 2. Gain acceptance or approval, succeed, as in I hope the play goes over. This term is sometimes elaborated to go over big or go over with a bang for a big success, and go over like a lead balloon for a dismal failure. [Early 1900s] 3. Rehearse, as in Let's go over these lines one more time. [Second half of 1700s]
American Heritage Idioms