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Go along   /goʊ əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
Go along

verb
1.
Cooperate or pretend to cooperate.  Synonym: play along.
2.
Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.  Synonyms: continue, go on, keep, proceed.  "We continued to work into the night" , "Keep smiling" , "We went on working until well past midnight"
3.
Pass by.  Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by.






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"Go along" Quotes from Famous Books



... Callate he kin hear as far as the governor's table, and he don't look as if he knows anything. One way he built up his power—listenin' when they're talkin' sly out there in the rotunda. They're almighty surprised when they l'arn he knows what they're up to. Guess you understand how to go along by quiet and ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... curse go along wid the rest upon him, for dhrivin' us to sich an unnatural spot as this! Hot an' heavy, into the sowl an' marrow of him may it penethrate. An' sure that's no more than all the counthry's wishin' him, whether or not—not to mintion the curses that's risin' ...
— The Poor Scholar - Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of - William Carleton, Volume Three • William Carleton

... the thumbs looked like two tiny boats on the horizon of a troubled sea. They bobbed and jumped about on the rolling shaking paunch, appearing and disappearing as laughter shook him. The Reverend Minot Weeks went out at the door ahead of Uncle Charlie, still laughing. One fancied that he would go along the street from store to store telling the tale of the christening and laughing again. The tall boy could imagine the details of ...
— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson

... at being left behind in the intellectual race; who, when continental critics are going on into theories of inspiration, do not like the imputation (so freely cast upon us by foreign writers) of being unequal to such things, of having no turn for philosophy. So they must have a theory, or go along with one; they must receive the Bible,—for they do receive it,—in some intellectual way; through some lens which they hold up; with a consciousness of some intellectual action in receiving it, something which not every one could practise, something beyond the mere simple apprehension ...
— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... willing to stay behind, even in your place. I've always had a longing to spend a winter there visiting my sister Isa, and my cousins Elsie and Molly. Cal and Art say, perhaps one or both of them may go on to spend two or three weeks this winter; and in that case I shall go along." ...
— Elsie's Kith and Kin • Martha Finley


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