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go amiss

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


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