go to the cinema

phrase

chiefly British
: to go to see a movie

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So, people would go to the cinema to see scale and to see something different. Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023 The public didn’t want to go to the cinema and had deserted Tunisian films. Liza Foreman, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022 The pandemic was bad in two ways; the obvious being people couldn’t go to the cinema at all for significant periods. Callum McLennan, Variety, 4 Nov. 2022 For years, debates raged on how to get young audiences to go to the cinema. Jamie Lang, Variety, 12 Feb. 2022

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“Go to the cinema.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20to%20the%20cinema. Accessed 22 Jul. 2026.

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