go strong

present singular third person goes strong · participle present going strong · past went strong · participle past gone strong

1. To do well; to succeed.

   I saw him dancin' there by the record machine I knew he must've been about 17 The beat was goin' strong Playin' my favorite song

   1975 July, Alan Merrill, Jake Hooker, “I Love Rock 'n' Roll”, in I Love Rock 'n Roll, performed by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, published January 1982

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   Merry Peal is a very smart mare[…] and Breba reminds us very much of Mendicant, whose owner bred her. Badly as she was cut up in the Oaks, she was going strong and well in the Vase, when she rolled over.

   1851, Gayhurst, “Olla Podrida”, in Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 103

   On the Great North of Scotland section, always a stronghold of four-coupled engines, a great number of small 4-4-0s, some over fifty years old, were still going strong in 1945, but serious inroads are being made into their numbers now.

   1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 351

   The new sea wall may stop the waves from the sea, but not from the children who enthusiastically greet our train as it passes. It's great to see this ages-old habit is still going strong.

   2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65