pass go

do not pass go

To arrive at some extreme punishment, especially jail time, without delay or any chance of improving the outcome. A reference to the board game Monopoly, in which a player typically collects $200 when passing the space labeled "Go" unless they receive a card instructing them to go straight to the "Jail" space instead. In a matter of hours, the board had ousted me from the company. Just like that—do not pass go, do not collect $200. It just seems like we exist in a time where everyone wants people to go straight to jail as soon as an accusation is made—do not pass go, nothing.
See also: go, not, pass

pass go

tv. to complete a difficult or dangerous task successfully. (From pass go and collect $200 in the game Monopoly.) You had better pass go with this job, or you’ve had it.
See also: go, pass
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Monopoly, the all-time popular board game that ruined friendships and detoured real estate gaming around the globe, is about to pass go its way to conquer a new property: Broadway.
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What also makes the game different, is that all players start-off with a different amount of money, and they all have to pay a different amount to buy the same thing and, then the ones with more money have to pay the one with less every time they pass go.
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Go directly to jail, do not pass go, a federal judge has told disgraced press baron Conrad Black.
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To celebrate its launch, makers Winning Moves is offering anyone who has their birthday on that day the chance to pass Go and collect pounds 200 worth of games, including the Magpies' version of Monopoly.
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The 12 books selected by Booktrust include - Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole; Diaspora City (short stories) The London New Writing Anthology; Do Not Pass Go by Tim Moore; Fingersmith by Sarah Walters; High Fidelity by Nick Hornby; London Orbital by Iain Sinclair; London, The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd; Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve; My East End by Gilda O`Neill; Samuel Pepys, The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin; Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo; White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
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If an online presence can connect the right people to the right information at the right time and at the right cost to achieve the right results, you pass GO and collect $200 - or whatever it will take to create your site.
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To pass Go, students must pay $40, and all others $100 for a chance to pick from the Community Chest and play Monopoly.
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I thought other elderly pass holders should make sure they do not let their pass go out of date.
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Wait for your tenants to pass go, they collect $200 and are able to pay you the rent that they owe you.
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