go home en · VERB
Meanings
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(euphemistic) To die.
Louis went home at around 2:30 yesterday.
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(euphemistic) To be eliminated in a competition.
Hellriegel's program tells him who is receiving a lot of votes (long periods of busy signals) and who is not (easy to ring through), and the website tells viewers who is most likely to go home – rather than who is most likely to stay.
2009, Sharon Marie Ross, Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet, page 82:
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, home. To return to one's house.
Your mother called. She wants you to go home at 10:00.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| going home | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| gone home | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| went home | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| goes home | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
go big or go home · take one's ball and go home · go hard or go home
Relateds
Synonyms
cross over (to die) · go to be with the Lord (to die) · pass away (to die) · pass (to die)
Translations (22)
nan-hbl 轉厝 /转厝 (return to one's house) · ba үлеү (euphemism: to die) · ba ҡайтыу (return to one's house) · pt ir embora (return to one's house) · ru прийти домой (return to one's house) · fi nukkua pois (euphemism: to die) · de heimkehren (return to one's house) · sv gå hem (return to one's house) · ja 帰る (return to one's house) · cmn 回去 (euphemism: to die) · qu hanpuy (return to one's house) · ba китеү (euphemism: to die) · ru вернуться домой (return to one's house) · id berpulang (euphemism: to die) · fi mennä kotiin (return to one's house) · yue 返屋企 (return to one's house) · cmn 回家 (return to one's house) · kl angerlarpoq (return to one's house) · hu hazamegy (return to one's house) · fr regagner ses pénates (return to one's house) · fr rentrer (return to one's house) · ba өйгә ҡайтыу (return to one's house)