Meaning of go west | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, west.
2. Synonym of set: to move toward the western horizon, to go down.
3. Synonym of die.
   dated, figuratively
4. To be lost, destroyed, or otherwise ruined.
   dated, figuratively
5. To move to the American West, particularly (historical) during the 19th century era.
   US

Equivalents

Examples

“Go west until you hit the ocean, then turn⟳ left.”

“For hit was nyght, the sonne goth west”

“I see⟳ the rocks set⟳ in the sky, and maybe the sun going west, and the trees getting dark.”

“Women and mony wilsome wy,”

“The Irish, and the Scottish Highlanders, always describe⟳ persons lately dead as having gone west.”

“Does any one know⟳ the origin or meaning of the soldiers' curious phrase for death, ‘Going West’?”

“In this war we're always moving, Moving on; When we make⟳ a friend another friend has gone... When the bravest and the best Of the boys you know⟳ "go west", Then you're choking down your tears and Moving on.”

“You'd think⟳, to hear⟳ some people talk⟳, That lads go West with sobs and curses, And sullen faces white as chalk... But they've been taught the way to do it... With due regard for decent taste⟳.”

“Jack has ‘gone west’. He died peacefully in the loving arms of his son.”

“Och, your ma's gone west, dearie. You'll hear⟳ her voice no more.”

“The glare of a burning house shone red in the sky over the roof tops. 'Somebody's 'appy 'ome gone west', remarked one man.”

“Their parcels... went persistently ‘west’.”

“Socialism? Ha! ha! ha! Where’s the money to come⟳ from? Ha! ha! ha! The lords of property were firm in their seats, and they knew it. But after the French collapse there came something that could not be laughed away, something that neither cheque-books nor policemen were any use⟳ against—the bombing. Zweee—BOOM! What’s that? Oh, only a bomb on the Stock⟳ Exchange⟳. Zweee—BOOM! Another acre of somebody’s valuable slum-property gone west.”

“I had a dinky [handkerchief], but it went west earlier this evening. Soaked, dear.”

“It reminds me of the advice that Mr. Secretary Corwin gave to a young man that was applying for a clerkship. He said, ‘Young man, go West’.”

“Go West, young man! Buy⟳ a good, stout farming outfit... and then go out to the far West upon Government-land.”

“Go west, young man. But stop⟳ before you get⟳ to California.”

“Go west, young man!”

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