GO TO TOWN Definition & Meaning

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go to town

Act without restraint, overindulge, as in He went to town on the hors d'oeuvres, finishing nearly all of them . [Early 1900s]
Do something efficiently and energetically. For example, She really went to town, not only developing and printing the film but making both mat and frame . [Early 1900s]
Be successful, as in After months of hard work, their business is really going to town . [Mid-1900s]

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鈥淪o, when you have a bunch of excess nitrogen, microbes go to town and they start using it for fuel. But some of it leaks out of their metabolism and it comes out as this air pollutant.鈥�

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鈥淭he person who buys this, one night could crack open a couple beers and open up the case and then go to town on these 16 boxes,鈥� Mr. Simonds said.

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鈥淭he Fed was very clear in their dot plot,鈥� he said, 鈥渁nd I don鈥檛 know why the markets decided to double it and then go to town on that.鈥�

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"I would definitely not go to town in drag for a little drink with my friends," he says.

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If I needed to jot down a few notes in a pinch, and I was staring down at a CIA briefing on the latest Russian military posturing, I鈥檇 totally flip that bad boy to the blank backside and go to town.

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