go fever

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Noun

go fever (uncountable)

1. (slang) An urge to commence a planned journey regardless of circumstances.
   • 1900, Rudyard Kipling, From Sea to Sea, page 214:

     He had served the Queen in the Marines and a Line regiment, and the "go-fever" being in his bones, had drifted to America, there to serve Uncle Sam.

   • 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, The Intrusion of Jimmy:

     "You seem to do a great deal of moving about." "I do," said Jimmy. "I can't keep still. I've got the go-fever, like that man in Kipling's book.

   • 1921, Edward Verrall Lucas, Rose and Rose: A Story, page 263:

     At last the go-fever broke out. She had been to London — that promoter of restlessness — to stay with a girl artist friend and show her work to some experts

   • 1994, Jim Lovell, Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, page 14:

     The problem, as many people knew, was that Gus had "go fever": he was itching to fly this spacecraft.

See also

• get-there-itis
• go-itis