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Related to go along with: go back on, let up, take care of, give rise to, pick up the slack, take it for granted

go along with someone or something

1. Lit. to travel along with someone or something. Dorothy went along with the scarecrow for a while until they met a lion.

2. Fig. to agree with someone or agree to something. I will go along with you on that matter. I will go along with Sharon's decision, of course.

3. Fig. to consent on the choice of someone or something. I go along with Jane. Tom would be a good treasurer. Sharon will probably go along with chocolate. Everyone likes chocolate!

4. Fig. to play along with someone or something; to pretend that you are party to someone's scheme. I went along with the gag for a while.

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The online book is "really not accepted" without a printed book to go along with it, Blevins says.

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But Bush's attitude toward the United Nations became altogether clear on September 12 when he told the United Nations that it must go along with his war on Iraq or render itself "irrelevant.