if time goes by, it passes
to accept what someone or something says when you are deciding what to do or think
to base an opinion on something
to move past a place or stop there for a short time during a journey
to use a particular name for yourself that is not your real name
But real involvement still made me extremely nervous, if wanting to run away screaming was anything to go by.
Going by what Tim said, we should be there by mid-afternoon.
He had been a fool to go by his father's rules, in his father's territory.
I went by the post office on the way home.
It’s never very wise to go by appearances.
Last month went by so fast.
Not in a cloud of dust, but creeping up until I had to slacken speed or go by.
Police officers protect themselves from criticism by going by the book.
We passed a house back from the road, and in the garden a woman stopped to watch us go by.
When I knew her, she used to go by the name of Ricki.
goes by
going by
went by
gone by
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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