Idiom
go to town on
Meaning
To devour or consume (something); to enthusiastically or assiduously work on (something); to tear into (something).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The hungry dog went to town on his dinner.”
“When the project deadline arrived, the team went to town on the final report to finish it on time.”
“After the critic received the long-awaited manuscript, he went to town on the text, meticulously correcting every error and refining the prose.”
Examples
simple
“The hungry dog went to town on his dinner.”
contextual
“When the project deadline arrived, the team went to town on the final report to finish it on time.”
complex
“After the critic received the long-awaited manuscript, he went to town on the text, meticulously correcting every error and refining the prose.”
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