Wednesday, January 15, 2014

go on, goon

Go on or go on ( two words ) means to proceed or continue--
Please, go on; don't stop on my account.
If you go on behaving this way you will have to stay after school.

Go on, informally, also means to chatter or blather--
Oh, she can go on about her grandchildren for hours if you don't stop her.
He will go on about his college days when he meets an old friend.

Go on also means to make use of for evidence or a clue--
All we found was a hair. That doesn't leave us much to go on.
This scrap of paper is all we have to go on.

Goon or goon ( one word ) means a henchman or a hired thug--
The crime boss sent a goon to collect the protection money.
He started his career as a goon for a racketeer.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"With a description to go on, the police arrested the goon who beat up the storekeeper."

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