go after

Meaning

1. Oxford55% of films

   to try to get sb / sth

   Go after it.

2. Oxford45% of films

   to chase or follow sb

In the movies · 74

• I'm in a helicopter going after Walker.Mission: Impossible - Fallout2018
• You'’d go after '’em if I wasn'’t here.Top Gun: Maverick2022
• Going after those big holiday bucks, huh?A Charlie Brown Christmas1965
• Go after it.Creed2015
• We go after Sandman.Training Day2001
• You go after the reindeer.The Christmas Chronicles2018
• You go after me...United 932006
• You gotta go after what you want. Go after her, Dale.Tucker and Dale vs. Evil2010

Learn it in full scenes

• Creed2015
  • Adonis Asks Rocky to Train Him
  • Adonis and Bianca's First Date
  • Rocky Agrees to Train Adonis
• Training Day2001
  • Jake's First Day on the Job
  • Alonzo Makes Jake Tell a Story
  • Alonzo's Felony Stop
• United 932006
  • Passengers Board United 93
  • The FAA Morning Briefing
  • A Controller Reports a Possible Hijack

From the same entry

• anything goes
• as people, things, go
• be going on
• be going to do
• don't go doing
• enough to be going on with
• go all out for
• go and do
• go off on one
• go on
• a lot, nothing, going for you
• no go

More phrasal verbs

• be caught up in
• keep out of
• call in
• keep on
• take to
• turn into
• sell out
• wind up
• come up
• go out
• listen up
• start out