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go away
verb
- intr, adverb to leave, as when starting from home on holiday
Idioms and Phrases
Depart, leave a place, travel somewhere. For example, They went away this morning , or Are you going away this winter? This expression also can be used as an imperative ordering someone to leave: Go away! It can also be used figuratively to mean “disappear,” as in This fever just doesn't go away . [c. 1200]Example Sentences
"I put the plan to them and they accepted it as a serious proposal, but it is one they need to go away and think about and consult upon," he said.
Kane's interview will do nothing to make that suspicion go away.
But officials here sometimes want these bad things to simply go away as quickly as possible.
And if you look at it that way, all the resentments and anger go away.
The textures and the velvet and sequins of the time never went away.
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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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