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go for1Decide on; choose: I went for grilled halibut...- Three to choose from - I went for the Zandra Rhodes creation.
- When choosing margarine, go for the soft rather than the hard.
- I decided to splurge and go for the whole shampoo, cut, blow dry, and permanent colour.
Synonyms choose, pick, opt for, select, plump for, take, settle on, decide on 1.1Tend to find (a particular type of person) attractive: Dionne went for the outlaw type...- She never really went for the sparkling golden boys, preferring the calmer, more measured, determined types.
- She's gone for rough boys in the past but maybe she's trying to change her image.
- I'm starting to realize why Cinderella went for the Prince.
Synonyms be attracted to, find attractive, like, fancy; prefer, favour, choose, be drawn to, gravitate towards informal have a thing about 2Attempt to gain or attain: he went for a job as a delivery driver...- She went for gold with an attempt on 142.5kg but failed.
- He never went for material gains nor sold his name for cheap publicity.
- ‘As a teacher, I was always a bit short of money so I went for a rep's job selling lighting because it came with a free car,’ explained David.
2.1 ( go for it) Strive to the utmost to gain or achieve something (frequently said as an exhortation): sounds like a good idea—go for it!...- And, you know, I just tackled it and went for it, and I've really never looked back.
- They wanted to score a try or two more and they went for it.
- Well, we saw a niche in the market that wasn't filled and we went for it.
3Launch oneself at (someone); attack: she went for him with clawed hands...- Realising his punches are having no effect he opts for an alternative form of attack… he goes for the legs.
- Clive only had time to put one foot on the road before his attacker went for his jugular.
- It then bit her shoulder before going for her face, tearing the back of her left ear.
Synonyms attack, assault, hit, strike, give someone a beating, beat up, assail, launch oneself at, set upon, spring at/on, rush at, let fly at, tear into, lash out at informal lay into, rough up, let someone have it, beat the living daylights out of British informal have a go at, duff up North American informal beat up on, light into 4Finally have a specified negative result: my good intentions went for nothing...- Civil service integrity and ministerial piety went for nothing.
- Is all her eight or ten years of hard work to go for nothing?
- I thought I could crack the top three, but when I heard that I placed fifth, I had tears in my eyes; it was as if all my hard work went for nothing.
5Apply to; have relevance for: the same goes for money-grabbing lawyers...- What goes for one does not necessarily apply to all.
- And it doesn't just apply to those on the Council - that same goes for the guards, the servants, the lesser nobility, the townsfolk, everyone.
- Kids raised in a kibbutz, for example, very rarely marry each other, and that goes for the people who bring them up as well.
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