go away

phraseA22 meaningsNot compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To go away is to leave. It is also what you tell somebody who is bothering you to do.

As a command it is blunt and slightly childish, and it is what one child says to another. It also means to go on holiday, so going away for a week is a pleasant thing rather than a rejection. And problems go away, or fail to, which is why the phrase it will not go away on its own is such a common warning. A going-away present is given to somebody leaving.

Definitions of go away

1phrasego awayTo leave a place or person.A2
“Please just go away and let me finish.”
2phrasetravelTo travel somewhere for a holiday.A2
“They go away every February.”

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 13 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word

← Vocabulary

go away

phraseA22 meaningsNot compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To go away is to leave. It is also what you tell somebody who is bothering you to do.

Definitions of go away

1phrasego awayTo leave a place or person.A2
“Please just go away and let me finish.”
2phrasetravelTo travel somewhere for a holiday.A2
“They go away every February.”

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 13 of A Man Called Ove.

Practise this word