go great guns
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go great guns (third-person singular simple present goes great guns, present participle going great guns, simple past went great guns, past participle gone great guns)
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To perform particularly well; to be particularly successful.
- 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:
- The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room. . . . "Hargate's been going great guns. I was eleven ahead a moment ago, but he made a break of twelve."
- 1988 March 12, Alasdair Marshall, "Video: Dancing the Night Away," Evening Times (Scotland), p. 6 (retrieved 5 Nov 2010):
- The film is bound to go great guns on video and fans of the early Travolta movies like Saturday Night Fever and Grease should be first in the queue.
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- (intransitive, idiomatic) To move or proceed very quickly.
- 2002 Dec. 4, "Cuba Beckons: Clipper Race 2002," International Sailing Federation (www.sailing.org) (retrieved 5 Nov 2010):
- Sam Fuller and the crew of New York Clipper continue to go great guns and retain a comfortable lead as they approach the south eastern tip of Cuba.
- 2002 Dec. 4, "Cuba Beckons: Clipper Race 2002," International Sailing Federation (www.sailing.org) (retrieved 5 Nov 2010):
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- big guns