go about your business
Definition
› to continue doing what you usually do: In spite of last night's terrorist attack, most people seem to be going about their business as if nothing had happened.Acting and actsDealing with things or people
(Definition of go about your business from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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go (off) without a hitch idiom
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go a bundle on sth idiom
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go a long way idiom
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go a long way towards doing sth idiom
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go about sth phrasal verb
- go about your business idiom
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go after sb phrasal verb
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go after sth phrasal verb
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go against sb phrasal verb
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go against sth/sb phrasal verb
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go against the flow idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- (your) every move idiom
- -ant suffix
- -ation suffix
- -er suffix (PERFORMER)
- act noun (THING DONE)
- act verb (BEHAVE)
- act verb (DO SOMETHING)
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- agency noun (ACTIONS)
- be up to sth idiom
- beat verb (DEFEAT)
- execution noun (ACTION)
- exploit noun
- fait accompli noun
- fling yourself into sth phrasal verb
- manoeuvring noun (CLEVER ACTION)
- operation noun (WORK)
- step noun (STAGE)
- stop the rot idiom
- up to preposition (DOING)
Topic:
Acting and acts
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