1870. H. D. Traill, 'On the Watch.' Sat. Songs, p. 22. Eh, waddyer say? Don't it go? Ho, yes! my right honnerble friend. It's go and go over the left, it's go with a hook at the end.
3. (colloquial).—To wager; to risk. Hence to stand treat; to afford.
1768. Goldsmith, Good Natured Man, Act iii. Men that would go forty guineas on a game of cribbage.
1876 Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, Prologue ii. The very dice on the counter with which the bar-keeper used to go the miners for drinks.
1877. S. L. Clemens (M. Twain), Life on the Mississippi, ch. xliii., p. 390. There's one thing in this world which a person won't take in pine if he can go walnut; and won't take in walnut if he can go mahogany. . . . That's a coffin.
c. 1882. Comic Song, ' The West End Boys,' verse 3. Another bitter I really can't go.
1887. World, 20 Apr., p. 8. While making up his mind, apparently whether he would go 'three' or 'Nap.'
4. (racing).—To ride to hounds.
1884. Hawley Smart, From Post to Finish, p. 219. There would be far too many there who had seen Gerald Rockingham go with the York and Ainstey not to at once know that he and Jim Forrest were identical.
5. (colloquial).—To be pregnant.
1561-1626. Bacon, (quoted by Dr. Johnson). Women go commonly nine months, the cow and ewe about six months.
1601. Shakspeare, Henry VIII., iv., I. Great bellied women that had not half a week to go.
Go DOWN, verb. phr. (colloquial).—I. To be accepted, received, or swallowed; to wash (q.v.).
1609. Dekker, Lanthorne and Candle-Light, in wks. (Grosart), III., 272. For the woorst hors-flesh (so it be cheape) does best goe downe with him.
1659. Massinger, City Madam, i., I. But now I fear it will be spent in poultry; Butcher's-meat will not go down.
1663. Pepys, Diary, 9 Nov. The present clergy will never heartily go down with the generality of the commons of England.
1742. Fielding, Joseph Andrews, bk. II., ch. xvii. 'O ho! you are a pretty traveller,' cries the host, 'and not know the Levant!. . . . . you must not talk of these things with me, you must not tip us the traveller—it won't go here.'
1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, ch. xxi. He . . . shook his head, and beginning with his usual exclamation said, 'That won't go down with me.'
1885. W. E. Norris, Adrian Vidal, ch. vii. In fashion or out of fashion, they always pay and always go down with the public.
2. (University).—To be under discipline; to be rusticated.
1863. H. Kingsley, Austin Elliot, i., 179. How dare you say 'deuce in my presence? You can go down, my Lord.
3. (common).—To become bankrupt. Also, To go under.
1892. R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, The Wrecker, p. 19. Some one had certainly gone down.
To go due north, verb. phr. (obsolete).—To go bankrupt. [That is, to go to White-cross Street Prison, once situate in north London]. See Quisby.
To GO ON the dub, verb. phr. (old).—To go house-breaking; to pick locks. See Dub.
1690. B. E., Dict. of the Cant. Crew. Going upon the dub, c. Breaking a House with picklocks.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
TO GO TO THE DOGS, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To go to ruin. [Cf., the Dutch proverb 'Toe goê, toe de dogs' = money gone, credit gone too.] See Demnition bow-wows.
1857. A. Trollope, Three Clerks, ch. i. The service, he said, would go to the dogs, and might do for anything he cared and he did not mind how soon.
