go to show

present singular third person goes to show · participle present going to show · past went to show · participle past gone to show

1. set phraseTo be an effective example that demonstrates a point; to prove.

   [A]ll the evidence that we have goes to show that he spoke the truth.

   1877, Anthony Trollope, chapter 10, in The Life of Cicero

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   Let a sixteen-year-old girl giggle in the choir and Aunty would say, “It just goes to show you, all the Penfield women are flighty.” Everybody in Maycomb, it seemed, had a Streak: a Drinking Streak, a Gambling Streak, a Mean Streak, a Funny Streak.

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

   Well, it just goes to show things are not what they seem / Please, Sister Morphine, turn my nightmare into dreams

   1971, Jagger–Richards, Marianne Faithfull, “Sister Morphine”, in Sticky Fingers, performed by The Rolling Stones

   Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, who were at the Palladium Friday night, don't fit comfortably into any of the stylistic niches invented by rock writers. […] All of which goes to show that the current rock scene remains chaotic.

   1978 July 16, Robert Palmer, “Tom Petty and Heartbreakers In Rock Show at the Palladium”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, retrieved 13 Jun 2018

   “The numbers just go to show — once again — that pundits and presumed communal representatives are flat-out wrong in assuming American Jews are hawkish on Iran.”

   2015 June 11, Karen DeYoung, “As an Iran deal nears, the lobbying, pro and con, intensifies”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2025, retrieved 13 Jun 2018

   Do you let her know? I could just let it go You can't hold your breath forever, just goes to show Being dry from the rain is no help with a fire in the home And back we always go, into a nightmare […] Just goes to show And back we always go

   2026, Anthony Vincent, “Into a Nightmare”performed by Anthony Vincent (featuring Cole Rolland)