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go on1 [often with present participle] Continue or persevere: I can’t go on protecting you...- She will do so as she goes on with her work protecting Americans' private security.
- Dancing went on till the early hours in the lower ground floor of the store, which had been turned into a night club-type space especially for the evening.
- Later that night, the Anglers Rest Hotel in Headford was the venue for the gala dinner and music and dancing went on late into the night.
1.1Talk at great length, especially tediously or angrily: the twins were always going on about him...- I could go on at length about the other prizes on offer, but I won't.
- They went on about benefits, making ends meet and why New Labour is so out of touch with the plight of those on the dole as I nodded surreptitiously into my pint, earwigging all the while.
- A few years back I found myself at a press launch where the man himself went on about how he was a proper journalist, yet the others were all pretenders, and not worthy to lick his boots.
Synonyms last, continue, carry on, run on, proceed; endure, persist, stay, remain; take talk at length, ramble, rattle on, talk on and on, carry on talking, chatter, prattle, prate, gabble, maunder, blether, blather, twitter informal gab, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, shoot one's mouth off British informal witter, rabbit, natter, waffle, chunter North American informal run off at the mouth 1.2Continue speaking or doing something after a short pause: [with direct speech]: ‘I don’t understand,’ she went on...- He bent to adjust the stirrups and went on speaking.
- There was another pause, and she went on just before he would have answered.
- She said each word deliberately and paused slightly before going on to the next word.
1.3 informal Said when encouraging someone or expressing disbelief: go on, tell him!...- So please keep your comments coming, and if you've never said anything before, why not take the opportunity now? Go on, I dare you!
- Go on! Tell me! What's wrong?
- Buy it. Go on. I'm telling you, buy it.
2Happen: we still don’t know what went on there...- A security guard eventually noticed what was going on and called the police.
- We are not going to make any progress on this until we get some truth and transparency about what's going on.
- There wasn't any wild dancing going on or anything.
Synonyms happen, take place, occur, transpire North American informal go down literary come to pass, betide, chance rare eventuate, hap 3 [often with infinitive] Proceed to do: she went on to do postgraduate work...- Those that persevere and succeed can go on to command six figure salaries.
- In the program, the students spend the first four semesters at UI and go on to continue their remaining four semesters at a university abroad.
- He encourages them to study and hopes that they will go on to higher education.
4 [usually with negative] informal Have a specified amount of care or liking for (something): I heard this album last month and didn’t go much on it...- I was approached by the Cowboys in 2002 and was keen to get out of Sydney at the time. I don't go much on the lifestyle down there.
- Like the biblical inhabitants of Eden, he and Jim do not ‘go much on clothes.’
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