Chapter Glubdubdrib to God of G by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Go it Blind Don't stop to deliberate. In the game called "Poker," if a player chooses to "go it blind," he doubles the ante before looking at his cards. If the other players refuse to see his blind, he wins the ante.

Go it, Warwick! A street cry during the Peninsular War, meaning, "Go it, ye cripples!" The Warwickshire militia, stationed at Hull, were more than ordinarily licentious and disorderly.

Go it, you Cripples! Fight on, you simpletons; scold away, you silly or quarrelsome ones. A cripple is slang for a dullard or awkward person.

Go of Gin A quartern. In the Queen's Head, Covent Garden, spirits used to be served in quarterns, neat - water ad libitum. (Compare Stirrup Cup.)

Go on all Fours Perfect in all points. We say of a pun or riddle, "It does not go on all fours," it will not hold good in every way. Lord Macaulay says, "It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours." Sir Edward Coke says, "Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit. " The metaphor is taken from a horse, which is lame if only one of its legs is injured. All four must be sound in order that it may go.

Go Out (To). To rise in rebellion; the Irish say, "To be up." To go out with the forces of Charles Edward. To be out with Roger More and Sir Phelim O'Neil, in 1641.

"I thocht my best chance for payment was e'en to gae out myself." - Sir W. Scott: Waverley, 39.

Go through Fire and Water to serve you Do anything even at personal cost and inconvenience. The reference is to the ancient ordeals by fire and water. Those condemned to these ordeals might employ a substitute.

Go to! A curtailed oath. "Go to the devil!" or some such phrase.

"Cassius: I [am] abler than yourself
To make conditions.
Brutus: Go to! You are not, Cassius.'
Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar, iv. 3.

GO TO BANFF, and bottle skate.
GO TO BATH, and get your head shaved.
GO TO BUNGAY, and get your breeches mended.
GO TO COVENTRY. Make yourself scarce.
GO TO HEXHAM. A kind of Alsatia or sanctuary in the reign of Henry VIII.
GO TO JERICHO. Out of the way. (See Jericho.)
And many other similar phrases.

Go to the Wall (To). To be pushed on one side, laid on the shelf, passed by. Business men, and those in a hurry, leave the wall-side of a pavement to women, children, and loungers.

Go without Saying (To). Cela va sans dire. To be a self-evident fact; well understood or indisputable.

Goat Usually placed under seats in church stalls, etc., as a mark of dishonour and abhorrence, especially to ecclesiastics who are bound by the law of continence.
   The seven little goats. So the Pleiades are vulgarly called in Spain.

Goat and Compasses A public-house sign in the Commonwealth; a corruption of "God en-compasses [us]."
    Some say it is the carpenters' arms - three goats and a chevron. The chevron being mistaken for a pair of compasses.

Goats (Anglo-Saxon, gat.)
   The three goats. A public-house sign at Lincoln, is a corruption of the Three Gowts, that is, drains or sluices, which at one time conducted the waters of a large lake into the river Witham. The name of the inn is now the Black Goats.

Gobbler (A). A turkey-cock is so called from its cry.

Gobbo (Launcelot). A clown in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

Gobelin Tapestry So called from Giles Gobelin, a French dyer in the reign of Francois I., who discovered the Gobelin scarlet. His house in the suburbs of St. Marcel, in Paris, is still called the Gobelins.