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.
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That kind of flexibility is what makes the difference between pilot experiments that don’t go anywhere and AI systems that do.
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Roxanne won’t go anywhere without a pair of cowboy boots.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
The dark, starkly political story of the tragedy Macbeth wouldn’t go anywhere without the three spooky witches, as Shakespeare scholar George Walton Williams outlines.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Meghan is back for another season of With Love, Meghan, though what is immediately clear from the footage of her then-living sweet old dog, Guy, who died prior to the first season’s release, is that Meghan didn’t really go anywhere in the first place.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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Kolawole Samuel Adebayo, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Roxanne won’t go anywhere without a pair of cowboy boots.
—Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
The dark, starkly political story of the tragedy Macbeth wouldn’t go anywhere without the three spooky witches, as Shakespeare scholar George Walton Williams outlines.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
Meghan is back for another season of With Love, Meghan, though what is immediately clear from the footage of her then-living sweet old dog, Guy, who died prior to the first season’s release, is that Meghan didn’t really go anywhere in the first place.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Go anywhere.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20anywhere. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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