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going on



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, going on for . Approaching, especially an age or time. For example, She's twelve, going on thirteen , or It's going on for midnight . The first term dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the mid-1800s. Also see go on .
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It’s insane to me because there’s this constant distraction going on all the time.

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"The chance of a trophy is massive, regardless of anything else that is going on," former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha argues.

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One starts to see what is really going on here.

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“The current administration, which has emphasized over and over again about radical transparency, should certainly be doing more to let consumers know what’s going on in these cases,” he said.

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"The doctors kept saying it was food poisoning, which obviously didn't help with trying to treat what was going on," she says.

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