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Synonyms

go west

Idioms  

  1. Die, as in He declared he wasn't ready to go west just yet. This expression has been ascribed to a Native American legend that a dying man goes to meet the setting sun. However, it was first recorded in a poem of the early 1300s: “Women and many a willful man, As wind and water have gone west.”

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Story left the Cincinnati area in 1979 to go west and find her biological father, traveling to Las Vegas with two male friends, police said.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2023

He’s got a simple charge: Protect me, advance me to go west.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

“You go west, what do they have? They have a skatepark. They have a dog park. They have concession stands,” Moise said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2022

"Instead of seaports we go west," he explains.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2022

The best thing to do, it being fall, was to head south or west for the winter, and because I didn’t want to go south I decided to go west.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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