go there

phrase

informal
: to start to talk or think about something
—usually used in negative statements
"Do you remember when we were dating?" "Let's not go there."
Childhood was not a happy time or me. I don't want to go there.

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Start with your primary email account because password-reset messages for other services often go there. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 Producers weren’t immediately convinced, but the filmmaker was delighted to have final cut on his first feature and insisted that Adult Supervision had to go there. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 Goat & Rabbit I go there for any signature that Mari (Matsumoto) has created — any drink that has complex flavors but isn’t spirit-forward. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 25 Aug. 2026 What always made Vegas special was that people from all walks of life could go there and have fun. — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for go there

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“Go there.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/go%20there. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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