move on
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Verb
[edit]move on (third-person singular simple present moves on, present participle moving on, simple past and past participle moved on)
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To continue, to proceed, to go on
- After spending the night resting in an abandoned church, the group decided to move on in their quest.
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
- Moving on again, I catch another GWR Class 802 bound for Oxford via the Cotswold Line.
- (idiomatic, intransitive) To start dealing with something else.
- The best revenge is always to just happily move on and let karma do the rest.
- 2021, Olivia Rodrigo (lyrics and music), “good 4 u”, in SOUR[1]:
- Well, good for you, I guess you moved on really easily / You found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks
- (idiomatic, transitive, informal) To attempt a seduction, often in a way seen as disloyal or rude to another.
- I think Shane is going to move on my ex tonight.
Translations
[edit]to leave somewhere for another place
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to start dealing with something else
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