"make a go of" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a go of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a go of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a go of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a go of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a go of"
      },
      "expansion": "make a go of (third-person singular simple present makes a go of, present participle making a go of, simple past and past participle made a go of)",
      "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": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 202",
          "text": "Look, I came up to make a go of this. To stop running away from the best thing I've had. To stop you running away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "He quit his regular job and tried to make a go of it as an artist."
        },
        {
          "text": "They made a go of the new business."
        },
        {
          "text": "They had to sell farm; after three consecutive crop failures, they just couldn’t make a go of it."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To succeed in (something); especially, to succeed in making a living."
      ],
      "id": "en-make_a_go_of-en-verb-OluoLKAf",
      "links": [
        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ],
        [
          "making a living",
          "make a living"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To succeed in (something); especially, to succeed in making a living."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "give it a go"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to succeed in",
          "word": "başarıya ulaşmak"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a go of"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "makes a go of",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "making a go of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a go of",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "made a go of",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "make<,,made> a go of"
      },
      "expansion": "make a go of (third-person singular simple present makes a go of, present participle making a go of, simple past and past participle made a go of)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "give it a go"
    }
  ],
  "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": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 202",
          "text": "Look, I came up to make a go of this. To stop running away from the best thing I've had. To stop you running away.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "He quit his regular job and tried to make a go of it as an artist."
        },
        {
          "text": "They made a go of the new business."
        },
        {
          "text": "They had to sell farm; after three consecutive crop failures, they just couldn’t make a go of it."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To succeed in (something); especially, to succeed in making a living."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "succeed",
          "succeed"
        ],
        [
          "making a living",
          "make a living"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To succeed in (something); especially, to succeed in making a living."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/En-au-make_a_go_of.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to succeed in",
      "word": "başarıya ulaşmak"
    }
  ],
  "word": "make a go of"
}