Idioms

go great guns
to do something very fast or with great energy
The workers were going great guns when I saw them this morning.

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  • go halves
  • go haywire
  • go hog-wild
  • go in for (something)
  • go in one ear and out the other
  • go into detail
  • go into effect
  • go into hiding
  • go into hock
  • go into orbit
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  • have a vested interest in (something)
  • clear away (something) or clear (something) away
  • instead of
  • get (someone's) goat
  • keep (someone or something) in check
  • take (someone's) part
  • serve (someone's) purpose
  • call the shots
  • have one's nose in a book
  • knock (something) off or knock off (something)


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    The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... Thus the saying.      .. More >>
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