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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go at a good clip en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To go fast
    • Without Da's slowing the pace, I was able to go at a good clip, stopping only to catch my breath every hour or so 2015, Jane Yolen, Robert J. Harris, The Rogues:
    • The driver told me that at five o'clock there was a direct bus for Lyon on the main road, three kilometers from there. So off we went at a good clip, our wooden soles clacking noisily down the pebbled road. 1993, Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo:

Forms

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goes at a good clip Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
went at a good clip Tense=Past lexicographic
going at a good clip Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gone at a good clip Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic