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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Example Sentences

When he left Broadway under a cloud due to increasingly risqué shows, he decided to go west to seek a new venue for his extravagant dreams.

From Los Angeles Times

Channeling his inner Horace Greeley, or whomever actually deserves credit for “Go west, young man,” Ducey did what Americans used to do more frequently: He moved.

From Washington Post

Five years later, Horace Greeley, famous for having counseled young men to “Go West,” warned that California was almost tapped out as a land of opportunity.

From Los Angeles Times

Thursdays and Saturdays; Program 1, “Go West”: 8 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times

“Now is our time. Let’s go West Virginia,” he said.

From Washington Times

Related Words

• betray
• bolt
• depart
• escape
• flee
• forsake
• give up
• quit
• vacate