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go strong

verb

Etymology

Combination of go and strong (adverb). The adverb was formed of Old English strong + -e; compare strongly.

  1. inherited from strong

Definitions

  1. To do well

    To do well; to succeed.

    • Merry Peal is a very smart mare[…] and Breba reminds us very much of Mendicant, whose owner bred her. Badly as she was cut up in the Oaks, she was going strong and well in the Vase, when she rolled over.
    • On the Great North of Scotland section, always a stronghold of four-coupled engines, a great number of small 4-4-0s, some over fifty years old, were still going strong in 1945, but serious inroads are being made into their numbers now.
    • I saw him dancin' there by the record machine I knew he must've been about 17 The beat was goin' strong Playin' my favorite song

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA