1890. Tit Bits, 1 Mar., p. 325. ‘Not for Joe’ … came from a once popular song. So did go it, you cripples.
To go out, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To fall into disuse.
1841. Punch, vol. I., p. 113. Pockets, … to use the flippant idiom of the day, are going out.
To go over, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To desert from one side to another; specifically (clerical) to join the Church of Rome; to vert (q.v.).
1861. Thackeray, Lovel the Widwer, ch. ii. I remember Pye, of Maudlin, just before he went over, was perpetually in Miss Prior’s back parlour with little books, pictures, medals, etc.
1878. Miss Braddon, Open Verdict, ch. vi. Mr. Dulcimer is a horrid person to tell you such stories; and after this, I shouldn’t be at all surprised at his going over to Rome.
2. (colloquial).—To die; i.e., to go over to join the majority. Also to go off. To go off [[164]]the hooks, to go under, to go aloft, and to go up.
1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 4. ‘A sight, marm, this coon’s gone over.’ Ibid., p. 3. Them three’s all gone under.
3. (thieves’).—To attack, rifle, and rob.
1889. Referee, 2 June. A few who had … gone over the landlord, left him skinned.