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go by the board en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To fall or to go overboard; to be cast over the side of a ship.
  2. (idiomatic) To be superseded, rejected, or obliterated; to pass by with little consequence; to amount to nothing.
    • How many cups of tea I drank, because Dora made it, I don’t know. But, I perfectly remember that I sat swilling tea until my whole nervous system, if I had had any in those days, must have gone by the board. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
going by the board Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes by the board Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
gone by the board Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
went by the board Tense=Past lexicographic