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going on
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 .Example Sentences
It’s insane to me because there’s this constant distraction going on all the time.
"The chance of a trophy is massive, regardless of anything else that is going on," former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha argues.
One starts to see what is really going on here.
“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.
"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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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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