great-go
See also: great go
English
Noun
great-go (plural great-gos or great-goes)
- Alternative form of great go
- 1840, “A (Very) Free Imitation of the First Eclogue of Vergil”, in Whibley, Charles, editor, In Cap and Gown, 3rd edition, published 1898, page 170:
- So many of the men I know / Were "flummox'd" at the last great-go;
- 1856, Thackeray, William Makepeace, The King of Brentford's Testament:
- At school they never flogg'd him, / At college, though not fast, / Yet his little-go and great-go / He creditably pass'd, / And made his year's allowance / For eighteen months to last.
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