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go into the long grass

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go into the long grass (third-person singular simple present goes into the long grass, present participle going into the long grass, simple past went into the long grass, past participle gone into the long grass)

  1. Alternative form of kick into the long grass.
    • 2025 February 19, David Stubbings, “Final phase of South West rail resilience unfunded”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 7:
      Smith warned that if Phase 5 "went into the long grass, we would have to redo" the monitoring work completed to date.