"go along for the ride" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> along for the ride"
      },
      "expansion": "go along for the ride (third-person singular simple present goes along for the ride, present participle going along for the ride, simple past went along for the ride, past participle gone along for the ride)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To accompany someone in a passive manner, or to take a relatively passive or detached role in a project or group activity."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_along_for_the_ride-en-verb-aTepe-0D",
      "links": [
        [
          "accompany",
          "accompany"
        ],
        [
          "passive",
          "passive"
        ],
        [
          "detached",
          "detached"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To accompany someone in a passive manner, or to take a relatively passive or detached role in a project or group activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-au-go_along_for_the_ride.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go along for the ride"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone along for the ride",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> along for the ride"
      },
      "expansion": "go along for the ride (third-person singular simple present goes along for the ride, present participle going along for the ride, simple past went along for the ride, past participle gone along for the ride)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To accompany someone in a passive manner, or to take a relatively passive or detached role in a project or group activity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "accompany",
          "accompany"
        ],
        [
          "passive",
          "passive"
        ],
        [
          "detached",
          "detached"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To accompany someone in a passive manner, or to take a relatively passive or detached role in a project or group activity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-au-go_along_for_the_ride.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go along for the ride"
}