go ahead

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

go ahead phrasal verb [ goes ahead going ahead went ahead gone ahead gone ahead ]
1. <A > to start to do something
• We've received permission to go ahead with the music festival in spite of opposition from local residents.
• I got so fed up with waiting for him to do it that I just went ahead and did it myself.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Starting and beginning ↑Starting again
2. <A > informal said to someone in order to give them permission to start to do something
• "Could I ask you a rather personal question?" "Sure, go ahead."
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Allowing and permitting
3. <A > If an event goes ahead, it happens
• The festival is now going ahead as planned.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Occurring and happening
 
• The launch party will be going ahead as scheduled.
• The organisers are going ahead with the scheme despite the objections of local residents.
• I'm not sure about the legalities, but I suggest we go ahead with the plan and see what happens.
• Until we've got official permission to go ahead with the plans we're in limbo.
• Ignoring my protestations, they went ahead and chopped the tree down.
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