go amiss

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not go amiss (British, American & Australian, informal, British & Australian, informal)

if something would not go amiss, it would be useful and might help to improve a situation. A word of apology would not go amiss. (usually in conditional tenses) Some extra helpers never come amiss.

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Give me your aid and you shall have mine: what then can go amiss with us two? Teaching mindfully by Ackley, Heather Ann / Academic Exchange Quarterly To love means to put someone or something before oneself, to rise above the pettiness of the ego, and in that we can never go amiss. The fortress by BECKETT, WENDY / U.S. Catholic For one thing, the best/quickest throw is more likely to go amiss than a routine throw, and if used all the time it could begin to lose its effectiveness. Holding the runners on base by Stallings, Jack / Coach and Athletic Director More results

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Give me your aid and you shall have mine: what then can go amiss with us two?

Teaching mindfully by Ackley, Heather Ann / Academic Exchange Quarterly

To love means to put someone or something before oneself, to rise above the pettiness of the ego, and in that we can never go amiss.

The fortress by BECKETT, WENDY / U.S. Catholic

For one thing, the best/quickest throw is more likely to go amiss than a routine throw, and if used all the time it could begin to lose its effectiveness.

Holding the runners on base by Stallings, Jack / Coach and Athletic Director

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go after
go against the flow
go against the grain
go ahead </span>
go all out
go all the way
go along

go amiss
go ape
go around
go around and around
go around/round in circles
go astray
go back a long way
go back to the drawing board

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