have a go

Meaning

1. Oxford87% of films

   to make an attempt to do sth

   No, that's not it. You have a go.

2. Oxford13% of films

   to attack sb physically

In the movies · 16

• No, that's not it. You have a go.Thor: Love and Thunder2022
• and you let me have a go on it and I ran over your legThe World's End2013
• - Have a go. - Right, OK.24 Hour Party People2002
• Have a go at it.Hidden Figures2016
• Have a go yourself.The King's Speech2010
• Want to have a goThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.2015
• Why don't you two have a go?Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
• We have a go movie.Swimming with Sharks1994

Learn it in full scenes

• 24 Hour Party People2002
  • Tony Wilson Names the Factory
  • Tony Wilson Names Joy Division
  • Tony Wilson Announces the US Tour
• Downton Abbey: A New Era2022
  • Violet Gives Sybbie a French Villa
  • Jack Barber Pitches Filming at Downton
  • Hollywood Comes to Downton
• Swimming with Sharks1994
  • Buddy Sweet-Talks Shelley Winters
  • Buddy Berates Guy Over the Phone
  • Guy's First Day as Buddy's Assistant

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 idioms

• that's her problem
• in a nutshell
• look the other way
• on the side
• in your heart
• of all people
• have your cake and eat it
• that will do
• with your tail between your legs
• i promise you
• beat hell out of
• take it