go in for
English
Verb
go in for (third-person singular simple present goes in for, present participle going in for, simple past went in for, past participle gone in for)
- To enter a competition.
- (colloquial) To have an interest in or approve of something.
- 2016, Mary Lasswell, Let's Go For Broke:
- “I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids,” Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, “there are so many pretty kinds.”
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- (colloquial) To engage oneself or take part in something.
- Charles Dickens
- He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else.
- 1979, Edmund Wilson, American Earthquake:
- "Why on earth do you go in for track?" I asked him. And then he explained that he thought that, if you wanted to be an all-around man, you ought to cultivate some form of athletics— he's actually taken up pole-vaulting: isn't that a ghastly thought?
- 2002, Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe Junior, page 270:
- It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football.
- Charles Dickens
References
- “go in for” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
- “go in for” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "go in for" on UsingEnglish.com
Anagrams
- roofing