go by

Meaning

1. Oxford40% of films

   to pass

2. Editorial30% of films

   to be known as or to use a particular name or alias

3. Oxford10% of films

   to be guided by sth; to form an opinion from sth

In the movies · 118

• - My first year went by in a blur. - Wait. Let me see.The Art of Racing in the Rain2019
• You simply have to go by the rules.Anne of Green Gables1985
• Master key disengagedTRON: Legacy2010
• They go by so fast.Felon2008
• l go by Precious.Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire2009
• What's he go by?The Royal Tenenbaums2001
• I go by Dan, middle name.The Tomorrow War2021
• Currently I go by Adam Clay.The Beekeeper2024

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

• clean up
• walk away
• come down to
• feel up to
• live with
• sum up
• come around
• go for
• come off
• drive away
• go after
• be caught up in