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going on



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, going on for . Approaching, especially an age or time. For example, She's twelve, going on thirteen , or It's going on for midnight . The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the mid-1800s. Also see go on .
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"So," she asks "what the hell's going on?"

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It is unclear just how long Hathaway's love of the Gunners has been going on, but there is certainly evidence of it being more than a year.

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Other customers have described having to cancel orders for clothes which they were expecting to collect before going on holiday, or being unable to return goods they had previously bought.

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“Before, the difficulties we faced were about the choices in the script, how truthful you could be about what was going on here,” said Nour Al-Ali, one of the series’ top-billed Syrian actresses.

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The BMA has not yet formally consulted its members on taking the dispute further, such as going on strike.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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