go it
See also: goit
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]go it (third-person singular simple present goes it, present participle going it, simple past went it, past participle gone it)
- (informal) To act or behave in a certain manner, especially in an excessively bold, forceful, or audacious manner.
- 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
- The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it. Hasn't any kind friend told you that she's the most dangerous woman in Simla?”
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, page 32:
- ‘Perhaps you would like to tell me what kept you?’
‘Not really, sir.’
Something of a gasp ran around the form-room. This was going it a bit strong, even for Healey.
‘I beg your pardon?’
- (informal) To proceed, to make progress; go on (expressing encouragement).
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
- Boot after boot was tried on until at last a fit was obtained, when in rushed a man, snatched up the customer's hat left near the door, and ran down the street as fast as his legs could carry him. Away went the customer after his hat, and Crispin, standing at the door, clapped his hands, and shouted, “Go it, you'll catch him!”—little thinking that it was a concerted trick, and that neither his boots nor the customer would ever return.