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watch the world go by en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, idiomatic) To pause and remain still whilst doing nothing but surveying the environment around oneself.
    • I think I'll just sit under this tree and watch the world go by.
    • Watching the world go by is so much fun that I have to tear myself away to catch my next service - LNER's 'Highland Chieftain' worked by a bi-mode Class 800 Azuma, [...]. 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

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watches the world go by Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
watched the world go by Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
watched the world go by Tense=Past lexicographic
watching the world go by Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic