little gon.

Brit.

/ˈlɪtl ɡəʊ/, U.S.

/ˈlɪd(ə)l ˌɡoʊ/

Forms: also with capital initial(s).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: little adj., go n.¹

Etymology: < little adj. + go n.¹ Compare later great go n.

1. A private (and illegal) lottery. Also figurative. Cf. great go n. 1. Now historical.The dating in the following explanatory quotation given by N.E.D. (1903) seems, in the light of contemporary evidence (see especially quot. 1796), to be too early.

1867 C. Walford Insur. Guide (ed. 2) 25 About this date [sc. 1710]..commenced a system of speculative assurances known as ‘the little goes’. A number of persons combined, and each subscribed 5s. fortnightly, inclusive of policy stamps and entrance money, on condition of £200 being paid to his heirs and executors. In another of these schemes 5s. a quarter entitled the subscriber's representatives to receive £120 on his demise.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > type of

Ragmana1393

lottery general1567

standing lottery1613

malt lottery1697

little go1795

great go1809

tombola1835

Tattersall1895

golden goal1968

1795 Sporting Mag. 6 274 A private lottery, or little go, was drawing at a house in Islington.

1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 149 The Keepers of unlicensed Insurance Offices..have recently invented and set up private Lotteries,..called by the nick-name of Little Go's.

1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 119 § 1 All such Games or Lotteries, called Little Goes, shall..be deemed..common and publick Nuisances, and against Law.

1806 Ann. Reg. 388 An unlawful game of chance,..formerly known by the name of the Little Go, but now distinguished, to avoid the penalty, by the name of Ivory.

1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 142 It is a political little-go, in which everybody knows the concern to be ruinous in the main.

1887 R. A. Proctor Chance & Luck 133 At illegal [lottery] offices, commonly known as ‘little goes’, any sum, however small, could be risked.

1925 M. D. George London Life in XVIII Cent. vi. 317 Besides the State Lottery there were illegal private lotteries, called Little Goes, which were grossly fraudulent.

1996 R. Munting Econ. & Social Hist. Gambling Brit. & USA iii. 57 To fill the gaps between the lotteries proper a number of unscrupulous operators ran informal and wholly illegal lotteries of their own, known as ‘little goes’.

2. Oxford University and Cambridge University slang (now historical). The first examination for the degree of B.A., Responsions (see responsion n. 3). Cf. small n.² 11, great go n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > university examinations

fellowship examination1787

collections1799

responsions1810

response1813

little go1816

great go1820

Previous Examination1824

school1826

smalls1836

senate-house examination1837

tripos1842

honours examination1851

biennial1853

great1854

moderations1857

Mods1858

professional1890

Trip1909

previous1950

1816 New Monthly Mag. Feb. 9/1 This infantine discipline of intellect was precisely synchronous with my trial of bodily prowess in the little-go.

1819 G. Taunton Junius with his Vizor up! 39 My nephew..has just been squirted through the little go at the University of Oxford.

1820 Gentleman's Mag. 90 i. 32 At present the Examination [at Oxford] is divided into a Little-go and a Great-go; colloquial appellations of the facetious great children sucking at the bosom of Alma Mater.

1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 461 (note) The little-go is a new classical examination lately instituted at Cambridge.

1838 F. W. Robertson Let. 23 May (1882) I. 37 [Sent from ‘Brazenose, Oxford’] I have to take..my ‘little go’ this term.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iii. 30 He's coaching me, and some other men, for the little go.

1876 C. Darwin Autobiogr. in Life & Lett. (1887) I. ii. 47 In my second year I had to work for a month or two to pass the Little Go, which I did easily.

1901 R. C. Lehmann Anni Fugaces 47 O ye Freshmen, safely past The terrors of the Little-Go.

1941 H. V. Routh Diffusion Eng. Culture outside Eng. v. 60 Nor need he begin to specialise as soon as he has gone to the university and passed his Previous, Little-go, or Matriculation.

1992 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin 66 He was now a year into his degree, and his tutor warned him that he was ill prepared to attempt even the preliminary exam, the so-called ‘Little Go.’

3. Any of various minor or preliminary things or activities (see quots.). Now slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s) > a preliminary action or step

introductionc1386

deductiona1535

induction?1544

preamble1548

flourish1552

preludium1563

primordium1577

preparativec1580

exordium1581

introit1583

foregoinga1586

prologuea1586

preface1589

prelusion1597

proem1598

prolusion1601

introductory1646

preliminary1656

prelimination1667

flourishing1687

little go1842

preluding1858

foreword1888

prelim1891

prelimen1898

run-in1900

opening gambit1911

prolegomenon1926

lead-in1928

pipe-openera1936

lead-up1953

intro1964

1842 Oracle of Reason 1 145/1 Though mystery on a larger scale may be loudly denounced, mystery on a small one, a kind of ‘little go’ in the trade of confusion and deception seems to be practised under fashionable auspices.

1852 E. C. Gaskell Let. 19 May (1966) 191 I (boldly) asked them all to come here..so we had an impromptu little-go last night.

1858 Leisure Hour 15 July 448/1 A side-table, whereon were placed several condiments to excite the appetite. This preliminary spread, or ‘little go’,..always constitutes an essential adjunct to every dinner party throughout Sweden.

1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 169/1 Little go, first imprisonment, first invented by a fallen university man.

1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 321/1 Little go, an unimportant, unexciting, or incomplete attempt, effort, task, or performance.

Compounds

General attributive, as (sense 1) little go act, (sense 2) little go candidate, little go examination, etc.

ΚΠ

1802 Sporting Mag. July 181/2 (heading) Little-go act.

1833 Remarks upon Mr. Beverley's Let. to Duke of Gloucester 9 The Little-go examination.., without which it is impossible to go in for a degree.

1840 Cambr. Univ. Mag. 1 197 Such of our readers as may at present be Little-Go candidates in embryo.

1868 Light Blue 3 187 The old Paley sheet..touched only upon the first nine chapters—now barely sufficient for a Little-Go pass.

1883 Knowledge 2 Mar. 138/2 ‘Magistrates conniving at certain periodical religious riots’ (so ran one of his Little-go questions..), [etc.].

1908 Antiquary 44 306/1 Mr. Hesse..had much to do with the enforcement of the ‘Little-go Act’ from the first.

1927 B. Stephen Emily Davies & Girton College 281 Her place in chaperoning a Little-go candidate to Cambridge was taken by Miss Manning.

2005 A. Brown J. D. Bernal i. 20 He was..required to go back to Cambridge in the spring of 1919 to take the ‘Little Go’ exam in Latin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	little go
释义	little gon. Brit. /ˈlɪtl ɡəʊ/, U.S. /ˈlɪd(ə)l ˌɡoʊ/ Forms: also with capital initial(s). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: little adj., go n.¹ Etymology: < little adj. + go n.¹ Compare later great go n. 1. A private (and illegal) lottery. Also figurative. Cf. great go n. 1. Now historical.The dating in the following explanatory quotation given by N.E.D. (1903) seems, in the light of contemporary evidence (see especially quot. 1796), to be too early. 1867 C. Walford Insur. Guide (ed. 2) 25 About this date [sc. 1710]..commenced a system of speculative assurances known as ‘the little goes’. A number of persons combined, and each subscribed 5s. fortnightly, inclusive of policy stamps and entrance money, on condition of £200 being paid to his heirs and executors. In another of these schemes 5s. a quarter entitled the subscriber's representatives to receive £120 on his demise. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] > type of Ragmana1393 lottery general1567 standing lottery1613 malt lottery1697 little go1795 great go1809 tombola1835 Tattersall1895 golden goal1968 1795 Sporting Mag. 6 274 A private lottery, or little go, was drawing at a house in Islington. 1796 P. Colquhoun Treat. Police of Metropolis 149 The Keepers of unlicensed Insurance Offices..have recently invented and set up private Lotteries,..called by the nick-name of Little Go's. 1802 Act 42 Geo. III c. 119 § 1 All such Games or Lotteries, called Little Goes, shall..be deemed..common and publick Nuisances, and against Law. 1806 Ann. Reg. 388 An unlawful game of chance,..formerly known by the name of the Little Go, but now distinguished, to avoid the penalty, by the name of Ivory. 1830 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. Jan. 142 It is a political little-go, in which everybody knows the concern to be ruinous in the main. 1887 R. A. Proctor Chance & Luck 133 At illegal [lottery] offices, commonly known as ‘little goes’, any sum, however small, could be risked. 1925 M. D. George London Life in XVIII Cent. vi. 317 Besides the State Lottery there were illegal private lotteries, called Little Goes, which were grossly fraudulent. 1996 R. Munting Econ. & Social Hist. Gambling Brit. & USA iii. 57 To fill the gaps between the lotteries proper a number of unscrupulous operators ran informal and wholly illegal lotteries of their own, known as ‘little goes’. 2. Oxford University and Cambridge University slang (now historical). The first examination for the degree of B.A., Responsions (see responsion n. 3). Cf. small n.² 11, great go n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > university examinations fellowship examination1787 collections1799 responsions1810 response1813 little go1816 great go1820 Previous Examination1824 school1826 smalls1836 senate-house examination1837 tripos1842 honours examination1851 biennial1853 great1854 moderations1857 Mods1858 professional1890 Trip1909 previous1950 1816 New Monthly Mag. Feb. 9/1 This infantine discipline of intellect was precisely synchronous with my trial of bodily prowess in the little-go. 1819 G. Taunton Junius with his Vizor up! 39 My nephew..has just been squirted through the little go at the University of Oxford. 1820 Gentleman's Mag. 90 i. 32 At present the Examination [at Oxford] is divided into a Little-go and a Great-go; colloquial appellations of the facetious great children sucking at the bosom of Alma Mater. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 461 (note) The little-go is a new classical examination lately instituted at Cambridge. 1838 F. W. Robertson Let. 23 May (1882) I. 37 [Sent from ‘Brazenose, Oxford’] I have to take..my ‘little go’ this term. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. iii. 30 He's coaching me, and some other men, for the little go. 1876 C. Darwin Autobiogr. in Life & Lett. (1887) I. ii. 47 In my second year I had to work for a month or two to pass the Little Go, which I did easily. 1901 R. C. Lehmann Anni Fugaces 47 O ye Freshmen, safely past The terrors of the Little-Go. 1941 H. V. Routh Diffusion Eng. Culture outside Eng. v. 60 Nor need he begin to specialise as soon as he has gone to the university and passed his Previous, Little-go, or Matriculation. 1992 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin 66 He was now a year into his degree, and his tutor warned him that he was ill prepared to attempt even the preliminary exam, the so-called ‘Little Go.’ 3. Any of various minor or preliminary things or activities (see quots.). Now slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s) > a preliminary action or step introductionc1386 deductiona1535 induction?1544 preamble1548 flourish1552 preludium1563 primordium1577 preparativec1580 exordium1581 introit1583 foregoinga1586 prologuea1586 preface1589 prelusion1597 proem1598 prolusion1601 introductory1646 preliminary1656 prelimination1667 flourishing1687 little go1842 preluding1858 foreword1888 prelim1891 prelimen1898 run-in1900 opening gambit1911 prolegomenon1926 lead-in1928 pipe-openera1936 lead-up1953 intro1964 1842 Oracle of Reason 1 145/1 Though mystery on a larger scale may be loudly denounced, mystery on a small one, a kind of ‘little go’ in the trade of confusion and deception seems to be practised under fashionable auspices. 1852 E. C. Gaskell Let. 19 May (1966) 191 I (boldly) asked them all to come here..so we had an impromptu little-go last night. 1858 Leisure Hour 15 July 448/1 A side-table, whereon were placed several condiments to excite the appetite. This preliminary spread, or ‘little go’,..always constitutes an essential adjunct to every dinner party throughout Sweden. 1909 J. R. Ware Passing Eng. Victorian Era 169/1 Little go, first imprisonment, first invented by a fallen university man. 1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 321/1 Little go, an unimportant, unexciting, or incomplete attempt, effort, task, or performance. Compounds General attributive, as (sense 1) little go act, (sense 2) little go candidate, little go examination, etc. ΚΠ 1802 Sporting Mag. July 181/2 (heading) Little-go act. 1833 Remarks upon Mr. Beverley's Let. to Duke of Gloucester 9 The Little-go examination.., without which it is impossible to go in for a degree. 1840 Cambr. Univ. Mag. 1 197 Such of our readers as may at present be Little-Go candidates in embryo. 1868 Light Blue 3 187 The old Paley sheet..touched only upon the first nine chapters—now barely sufficient for a Little-Go pass. 1883 Knowledge 2 Mar. 138/2 ‘Magistrates conniving at certain periodical religious riots’ (so ran one of his Little-go questions..), [etc.]. 1908 Antiquary 44 306/1 Mr. Hesse..had much to do with the enforcement of the ‘Little-go Act’ from the first. 1927 B. Stephen Emily Davies & Girton College 281 Her place in chaperoning a Little-go candidate to Cambridge was taken by Miss Manning. 2005 A. Brown J. D. Bernal i. 20 He was..required to go back to Cambridge in the spring of 1919 to take the ‘Little Go’ exam in Latin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795
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