if a ship goes about, it turns and sails in the opposite direction
same as go around
to do something that you normally do in your usual way
to start dealing with a problem, situation, or job in a particular way
As if we'd let our lot go about with lice.
But at the back, we go about our business quietly.
How did you go about finding a job?
How do I go about dealing with a man like this without turning into a bossy control freak or going insane?
How does he go about approaching a family?
How would you go about winning back the fans?
I think I’d go about it quite differently.
If you go about making those changes properly, the disruption and time it takes will be well worth it.
It may pay off, but the shoddy manner with which they went about the change will leave many hoping that it does not.
Or you don't know how to go about solving issues and asking for what you need.
Some investors said that any sympathy they have for his view has been overshadowed by the way he has gone about dealing with the issue.
The problem is no one wants to go about it directly.
The sounds it makes while going about its business range from mellifluous to menacing.
The trouble is that the many who go about quietly being good parents pass unnoticed.
The two men often talk about politics as they go about their business.
There were no further reports of violence in the town, and most people went about their daily activities as usual.
They don't go about buying up places and then telling the local people that you are not allowed to go into the forest where your grandfather hunted.
They felt free now to just go about their lives.
This is his way of going about things.
Watching another creature go about its life somehow gave me purpose, too.
We just go about our daily life.
What is the best way to go about asking for a pay rise?
Yet how does one go about building these reserves?
You cannot just go about wounding people in this way.
You think you look good as you go about your life and they will edit it and make you look like a fool.
goes about
going about
went about
gone about
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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