go in for something Definition

go¹
verb, usually intr goes, went, gone, going

1. To walk, move or travel in the direction specified.

Thesaurus: move, proceed, progress, advance, hie, wend.
Form: go about (often)
Form: go by
Form: go down
2. To lead or extend.

Example: a path that goes across the field
Example: The road goes all the way to the farm
3. To visit or attend it, once or regularly.

Example: go to the cinema
Example: go to school
Thesaurus: function, work, run, perform, operate.
Form: go to somewhere (usually)
4a. To leave or move away;

Thesaurus: depart, leave, quit, withdraw, decamp, retreat, run away, scram (slang).
4b. Said by someone signalling the start of a race: begin the race!
5. To be destroyed or taken away; to disappear.

Example: The old door had to go
Example: The peaceful atmosphere has gone
6. To proceed or fare.

Example: The scheme is going well
7. To be used up.

Example: All his money went on drink
8. To be given or sold for a stated amount.

Example: went for £20
9. To leave or set out for a stated purpose.

Example: go for a ride
Example: go on holiday
Example: gone fishing
tr & intr
10. To perform (an action) or produce (a sound).

Example: go like this
Example: go bang
11. colloq
To break, break down, or fail.
Example: The old TV finally went
Example: His eyes have gone
12. To work or be in working order.

Example: get it going
13. To become; to pass into a certain condition.

Example: go mad
14. To belong; to be placed correctly

Example: Where does this go?
15. To fit, or be contained.

Example: My foot won't go into the shoe
Example: Four into three won't go
16. To be or continue in a certain state.

Example: go hungry
17. Said of time: to pass.
18. Said of a story or tune: to run

Example: How does it go?
19. To apply to them; to be valid or accepted for them.

Example: The same goes for you
Example: In this office, anything goes
Form: go for someone (often)
Form: go for something
20. colloq
To carry authority.
Example: What she says goes
21. Said of colours, etc: to match or blend.

Thesaurus: belong, match, mesh, correspond, suit, fit in, harmonize, accord, agree, complement.
Form: go with something (often)
22. To subject oneself.

Example: go to much trouble
23. To adopt a specified system.

Example: go metric
tr
24. To bet (a specified amount), especially at cards.

Example: went five pounds
25. colloq
To be in general, for the purpose of comparison.
Example: As girls go, she's quite naughty
26. To exist or be on offer.

Example: the best offer going at the moment
27. very colloq
To say.
Example: She goes, ‘No, you didn't!' and I goes, ‘Oh, yes I did!'

noun goes (plural)

1. A turn or spell.

Example: It's my go
2. Energy; liveliness.

Example: She lacks go
3. colloq
Busy activity.
Example: It's all go
4. colloq
A success.
Example: make a go of it

Idiom: be going on for something

colloq
To be approaching (a specified age).
Example: She's going on for 60

Idiom: from the word go

From the very beginning.

Idiom: give it a go

colloq
To make an attempt at something.

Idiom: go all out for something

To make a great effort to obtain or achieve it.

Idiom: go and ...

To be so unwise or unfortunate as to ....
Example: They've gone and got lost

Idiom: go great guns

See under gun.

Idiom: go it alone

colloq
To manage or try to manage without help, especially when in difficulties.

Idiom: go native

To assimilate oneself to an alien culture or to the way of life of a foreign country.

Idiom: go slow

To work slowly so as to encourage an employer to negotiate or meet a demand. See also go-slow.

Idiom: have a go

colloq
To try; to make an attempt.

Idiom: have a go at someone

To attack them verbally.

Idiom: have something going for one

colloq
To have it as an attribute or advantage.
Example: You have a lot going for you

Idiom: I could go something

very colloq
I would like it; I could do with it; I need it.
Example: I could really go a pint of cold beer

Idiom: no go

colloq
Not possible.

Idiom: on the go

colloq
Busily active.

Idiom: to be going on with

colloq
For the moment.
Example: enough to be going on with

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon gan.

Phrasal Verb: go about

To circulate.
Example: a rumour going about
To change course.

Phrasal Verb: go about something

To busy oneself with it.To attempt or tackle it.
Example: how to go about doing this

Phrasal Verb: go against someone

To be decided unfavourably for them.
Example: The court case went against him

Phrasal Verb: go against something

To be contrary to it.

Phrasal Verb: go ahead

To proceed.

Phrasal Verb: go along with someone or something

To agree with and support them or it.

Phrasal Verb: go back on something

To break (an agreement, etc).

Phrasal Verb: go by something

To be guided by it or act in accordance with it.
Example: Don't go by what he says

Phrasal Verb: go down

To decrease.To be accepted or received.
Example: The joke went down well

Phrasal Verb: go down on someone

To perform fellatio or cunnilingus on them.

Phrasal Verb: go down with something

To contract an illness.

Phrasal Verb: go for someone or something

To attack them.To be attracted by them.To choose them.
Example: went for the red shoes instead
To try very hard to achieve something.

Phrasal Verb: go in for something

To take up (a profession).To enter (a contest).To be interested or attracted by something, as a rule.
Example: don't usually go in for films with subtitles

Phrasal Verb: go into something

To take up or join (a profession).To discuss or investigate something.
Example: cannot go into that now

Phrasal Verb: go off

To explode.Said of perishables, eg food: to become rotten.To proceed or pass off.
Example: The party went off well

Phrasal Verb: go off someone or something

To stop liking them or it.

Phrasal Verb: go on

To continue or proceed.To talk too much.An exclamation expressing disbelief.

Phrasal Verb: go on at someone

To criticize them or complain to them persistently.

Phrasal Verb: go out

Said of a fire or light: to become extinguished.To be broadcast.To no longer be fashionable.

Phrasal Verb: go out to someone

Said of someone's heart: be in sympathy with them.
Example: My heart goes out to the victim's family

Phrasal Verb: go out with someone

To spend time with someone socially or (especially) romantically.

Phrasal Verb: go over

To pass off or be received.
Example: The play went over well

Phrasal Verb: go over something

To examine it.To revise or rehearse it.

Phrasal Verb: go over to

To transfer support or allegiance.
Example: go over to the enemy

Phrasal Verb: go round

To be enough for all.

Phrasal Verb: go through

To be approved.

Phrasal Verb: go through something

To use it up.To revise or rehearse it.To examine it.To suffer it.
Example: went through hell
To search it.
Example: went through all our bags

Phrasal Verb: go through with something

To carry it out to the end.

Phrasal Verb: go under

To fail or be ruined.

Phrasal Verb: go up

To increase.Said of a building, etc: to be erected.To be destroyed by fire or explosion.

Phrasal Verb: go with someone

To have a close romantic friendship with them.

Phrasal Verb: go with something

To co-exist with it.
Example: Goodness doesn't always go with beauty
To agree with or support it. 3 to be a good match with it.

Phrasal Verb: go without something

To suffer a lack of it.