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Phrase(s): go to!
Inf. go to hell! • Oh, you’re terrible. Just go to! • Go to, you creep!, Phrase(s): go to (the devil)
Go to Go to hell., Phrase(s): go to someone or something
to travel to or toward someone or something. • We went to her as soon as she called saying she needed us. • Are you going to the bank?, Phrase(s): go to someone (about someone or something)
to discuss one’s problems with someone or something with someone else. • I went to the boss about the new secretary. • This is a real problem. I’ll have to go to the manager.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. See GOING TO. 2. Also, go toward. Contribute to a result, as in Can you name the bones that go to make the arms and legs? or The director has a good eye for seeing what will go toward an entire scene. [c. 1600] 3. Begin, start, as in By the time she went to call, she'd forgotten what she wanted to say. The related idiom go to it means "get started, get going." P.G. Wodehouse used it in Louder & Funnier (1932): "Stoke up and go to it." [First half of 1700s]
American Heritage Idioms