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go over

phraseB22 meaningsNot compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To go over something is to review it carefully, point by point. Nothing skipped, and probably not for the first time.

It is what you do with figures, a script, an argument or a plan before it matters. There is a second sense meaning to be received, since a joke that goes over well has landed, and going over somebody's head means either bypassing them or being too complicated for them. And going over to somewhere means visiting or switching sides.

Definitions of go over

  1. 1phrasego overTo examine or review something carefully.B2

    “Let us go over the figures once more.”

  2. 2phrasereceivedTo be received in a particular way.C1

    “The speech may not go over well with the members.”

Also accepted in games: check

Practised in Phrasal Verbs, A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 6 of A Man Called Ove.

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