go there
idiom
informal
: to start to talk or think about something
—usually used in negative statements
"Do you remember when we were dating?" "Let's not go there."
Childhood was not a happy time or me. I don't want to go there.
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More important things go there.
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Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
If your city hosts a holiday festival, go check it out; if there’s a neighborhood famous for its holiday decorations, go there to see them.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Dec. 2025
Poor Indigenous, Black, the people from the favelas, when the police go there and kill 120 people there, and the population basically claps and thinks that that’s great.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2025
People go there for everything from frozen fruit to fishing line, underwear to bullets.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
If your city hosts a holiday festival, go check it out; if there’s a neighborhood famous for its holiday decorations, go there to see them.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 2 Dec. 2025
Poor Indigenous, Black, the people from the favelas, when the police go there and kill 120 people there, and the population basically claps and thinks that that’s great.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2025
People go there for everything from frozen fruit to fishing line, underwear to bullets.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Go there.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20there. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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