go anywhere

idiom

1

: to make progress : become more successful

—used in negative statements

His career isn't going anywhere.

2

: to produce any useful results

—used in negative statements

It seemed like a good idea, but it never went anywhere.

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

And four other quarterbacks are projected to go anywhere from No. 2 to the late teens to potentially out of the first round. —Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023

Price: $70 What’s black and white and ready to go anywhere? —Lois Alter Mark, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023

Uproxx Can Ben Affleck go anywhere without sparking a new round of Sad Affleck memes? —Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 Feb. 2023

The grandeur of the resort may be gone, but that magical water didn't go anywhere. —Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Jan. 2023

Harris, for the second straight year, doesn’t plan to go anywhere this offseason. —Dan Labbe, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2023

Favorites like the spinach-parmesan dip, short rib stroganoff, classic club, and mac and cheese casserole won’t go anywhere. —Dallas News, 19 Dec. 2022

Trying to be creative, the Americans even explored some sort of three-way deal that would give the Germans something in return, but that did not go anywhere, either. —Peter Baker, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022

Which was wise, not just because Babydog doesn’t go anywhere by accident and the canine tableau was obviously planned but because there was the duty at hand to say the words everyone was gathered to hear. —Andrew Donaldson, Washington Examiner, 5 May 2023

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