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"word": "go nuts"
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"word": "go wild"
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"word": "knock oneself out"
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"text": "I went ahead with my plan.",
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"ref": "2022 December 14, Mel Holley, “Network News: Strikes go on as RMT rejects RDG's \"detrimental\" offer”, in RAIL, number 972, page 8:",
"text": "In the meantime, strikes already planned for NR are to go ahead, despite an offer being put to RMT members in an electronic ballot that was due to close on December 12 (after this issue of RAIL went to press).",
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"text": "Go ahead and eat without me. I expect to be very late.",
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"ref": "1894, Mark Twain, chapter 12, in Tom Sawyer Abroad:",
"text": "“Tom Sawyer, I want to ask you some questions.” “Go ahead,” he says, and I see Jim chirk up to listen.",
"type": "quote"
}
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"(imperative) Used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal."
],
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"word": "go for it"
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{
"word": "be my guest"
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{
"word": "feel free"
}
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"text": "Bravo Six Actual, this is Bravo Six Four. Go ahead, over.",
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"To send communication over the radio."
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"(procedure word, military) To send communication over the radio."
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{
"ipa": "/ˌɡɐʉ əˈhɛd/",
"tags": [
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"ipa": "/ˌɡu əˈhɛd/",
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "proceed",
"word": "procedere"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "proceed",
"word": "andare avanti"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "請便"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qǐngbiàn",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "请便"
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{
"code": "et",
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"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "edasi minema"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "alkaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "aloittaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "ruveta"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "vas-y"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "allez-y"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"polite"
],
"word": "bitte"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "los"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "nur zu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "na los"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "nekilát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "hozzálát"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "hozzáfog"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "hozzákezd"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "elkezd"
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{
"code": "hu",
"english": "reply to asking permission",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "rajta"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"informal"
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"word": "ne zavartasd magad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "ne zavartassa magát (fml.)"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "ar aghaidh leat"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "lean ort"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ar aghaidh libh"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "leanaigí oraibh"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "vai"
},
{
"alt": "どうぞおさきに",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "dōzo o-saki ni",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "どうぞお先に"
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "licet"
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{
"code": "mg",
"lang": "Malagasy",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "alefa"
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{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "hágoshį́į́"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "śmiało"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "zacząć"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "vai em frente"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "daváj",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "дава́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pristupájte",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"formal"
],
"word": "приступа́йте"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "valjáj",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "валя́й"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"english": "please",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "požálujsta",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "пожа́луйста"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "siuthad"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"note": "this defective verb only has imperative forms",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "siuthadaibh"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "venga"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "adelante"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "sigue"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "siga"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "jāiye",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "جائیے"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "farmāiye",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "فرمائیے"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "dal ati"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "daliwch ati"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "dal ymlaen"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "daliwch ymlaen"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "yn dy flaen â thi"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "yn eich blaenau â chi"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "ymlaen â thi"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "ymlaen â chi"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "gezunterheyt",
"sense": "(imperative) grant permission",
"word": "געזונטערהייט"
}
],
"word": "go ahead"
}
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