IdiomDaily Life
English
Englishon the go
Meaning: Constantly busy; very active.
Example: “With three kids and two jobs, she's on the go from dawn to midnight.”
Origin: Built on "go" in its oldest sense of movement or departure, tracing through Old English gan back to a Proto-Indo-European root associated with release or motion. "On the go," meaning in a state of constant activity or motion, is documented from 1843, part of a wider 19th-century pattern of pairing "on the" with an activity word to describe someone caught up in continuous, ongoing action rather than a single completed one.
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