there go/goes

phrase

informal

—used to say that something is no longer available or possible

Look at that traffic jam! There goes our only chance of arriving on time.

It's supposed to rain this weekend, so there go our plans for a barbecue.

Examples of there go/goes in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mark Cooper, the director of Animal Care Services, said some of the animals that come there go through a lot. — Marvin Hurst, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025

Yours is a tender soul, there goes compassion dripping from your face onto the floor. — Literary Hub, 3 Dec. 2025

How the comic got there goes back more than a few decades, to Depression-era San Francisco, where their mother — then 9 — and her teenage brother scraped together change to buy a few comics off a newsstand, including that first Superman. — Andy Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 19 Nov. 2025

Again, there goes Javonte (Williams) with another long run right at the end of a two minute. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025

But, there goes your rank and there goes your future. — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 3 Oct. 2025

Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 30 Sep. 2025

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