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goings-on

[ goh-ingz-on, awn ]

noun

Informal.
  1. conduct or behavior, especially when open to criticism:

    We had never seen such goings-on as at the last dance.

  2. happenings; events:

    The American newspaper kept her in touch with the goings-on back home.



goings-on

plural noun

  1. actions or conduct, esp when regarded with disapproval
  2. happenings or events, esp when mysterious or suspicious

    there were strange goings-on up at the Hall

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of goings-on1

First recorded in 1765鈥75; noun use of present participle phrase going on
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The goings-on affect her Ja-Young least of all, but we鈥檙e stuck watching her and whatever thoughts she鈥檚 too reserved to express.

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Gertz, the attorney general, has said that it is 鈥渘ot credible鈥 that local authorities didn鈥檛 know about goings-on at the ranch.

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Essentially the story of how I came to this book is that I used to investigate corruption in mining and oil deals in Africa and I saw how so many of them were linked to offshore companies, and to the goings-on of companies listed in Toronto and London and elsewhere.

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On paper, the unsettling drama explored the murky goings-on in the US logging town following the murder of teenage beauty queen Laura Palmer, hauntingly brought to life by Sheryl Lee.

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Court reporters are trusted to keep verbatim accounts of sworn testimony and other goings-on inside courtrooms.

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