Intj. (common).—Keep at it! Keep it up!—a general (sometimes ironical) expression of encouragement. Also go it ye gripples, crutches are cheap! (or newgate’s on fire); go it, my tulip; go it my gay and festive cuss! (Artemus Ward); or (American) go it boots! go it rags! i’ll hold your bonnet! g’lang! (usually to a man making the pace on foot or horseback.) For similar expressions see Mother. Fr., hardi! 1840. Thackeray, Cox’s Diary. Come along this way, ma’am! Go it, ye cripples! 1854. Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring, p. 92. ‘Go it, old boy!’ cried the impetuous Smith. 1868. Miss Braddon, Trail of the Serpent, bk. I., ch. iii. Three cheers for red! Go it—go it, red! 1890. Tit Bits, 1 Mar., p. 325. ‘Not for Joe’ ... came from a once popular song. So did go it, you cripples. To go out, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To fall into disuse. 1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 113. Pockets, ... to use the flippant idiom of the day, are going out. To go over, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To desert from one side to another; specifically (clerical) to join the Church of Rome; to vert (q.v.). 1861. Thackeray, Lovel the Widwer, ch. ii. I remember Pye, of Maudlin, just before he went over, was perpetually in Miss Prior’s back parlour with little books, pictures, medals, etc. 1878. Miss Braddon, Open Verdict, ch. vi. Mr. Dulcimer is a horrid person to tell you such stories; and after this, I shouldn’t be at all surprised at his going over to Rome. 2. (colloquial).—To die; i.e., to go over to join the majority. Also to go off. To go off the hooks, to go under, to go aloft, and to go up. 1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 4. ‘A sight, marm, this coon’s gone over.’ Ibid., p. 3. Them three’s all gone under. 3. (thieves’).—To attack, rifle, and rob. 1889. Referee, 2 June. A few who had ... gone over the landlord, left him skinned. To go off, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To take place; to occur. 1866. Mrs. Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, ch. xiv. The wedding went off much as such affairs do. 2. (colloquial).—To be disposed of (as goods on sale, or a woman in marriage). 1835. Dickens, Sketches by Boz, p. 208. Miss Malderton was as well known as the lion on the top of Northumberland House, and had an equal chance of going off. 3. (colloquial).—To deteriorate (as fish by keeping, or a woman with years). 1883. Pall Mall Gazette, 16 Apr., p. 3, c. 2. Shotover rather went off in the Autumn, and her Leger preparation was not altogether satisfactory. 1892. Tit-Bits, 17 Sept., p. 422, c. 3. To those ... who are apt to go off colour, so to speak, through injudicious indulgence at table. 4. (colloquial).—To die. For synonyms, see Aloft. 1606. Shakspeare, Macbeth, v., 7. I would the friends we miss were safe arrived: Some must go off.