Go.

(Anglo-Saxon, gān, ic gā, I go.)

Here’s a go or Here’s a pretty go. Here’s a mess or awkward state of affairs.

It is no go. It is not workable. “Ça ira,” in the French Revolution (it will go), is a similar phrase.

(See Great Go, and Little Go.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Gloves
Glubdubdrib
Gluckist and Piccinists
Glum
Glumdalclitch
Glutton (The)
Gluttony
Gnatho
Gnomes
Gnostics
Go
Go (The)
Go along with You
Go-between (A)
Go-by
Go it Blind
Go it, Warwick!
Go it, you Cripples!
Go of Gin
Go on all Fours
Go out (To)