English Phrase of the Day

go away

Definitions

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go away
1. interj. (dismissal) Command asking someone to leave.
Go away! Stop annoying me!
2. v. To depart or leave a place.
I'm not going to buy it. Please go away and don't come back.
3. v. To travel somewhere, especially on holiday or vacation.
Are you going away this year?
4. v. To vanish or disappear.
As you get closer the haze goes away.
This cold just won't go away.
Analysis
go
1. v. To move:
2. v. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like
Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? &nbs
3. v. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's m
Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
away
1. adv. From a place, hence.
He went away on vacation.
2. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
3. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
4. adv. (as imperative, by ellipsis) Come away; go away; take away.

Why can't that sun just go away.

That's how long it takes to go away.

The feeling does not go away and now I have achieved it.

Sailors like to go away, you know.

Let me draw my breath so faintly so you won't go away, so quiet.

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