great-go

great-go (plural great-gos or great-goes)

1. Alternative form of great go
   • 1840, “A (Very) Free Imitation of the First Eclogue of Vergil”, in Charles Whibley, editor, In Cap and Gown, 3rd edition, published 1898, page 170:

     So many of the men I know / Were "flummox'd" at the last great-go;

   • 1856, William Makepeace Thackeray, The King of Brentford's Testament:

     At school they never flogg'd him, / At college, though not fast, / Yet his little-go and great-go / He creditably pass'd, / And made his year's allowance / For eighteen months to last.