Hey, how goes it today?
how goes it
idiomAn informal greeting roughly equivalent to how are you.
Origin
disputed originThe phrase is a regular Early Modern English equivalent of how's it going (when neither progressive tenses nor do-support were obligatory). As such it could have survived through regional dialects. Nevertheless modern usage is likely a calque of German wie geht es, perhaps additionally also Dutch hoe gaat het, Danish hvordan går det, etc.
I ran into an old friend at the grocery store and asked him how goes it.
After months of silence, he sent a brief message asking how goes it with my new life abroad.
- 01
a little of something goes a long way
Only a small amount of something is usually required to produce a great effect.
- 02
anything goes
There are no rules or restrictions.
- 03
balloon goes up
Something exciting, risky, or troublesome begins.
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here goes nothing
Indicates a lack of confidence or certainty about the activity about to be tried.
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make it up as one goes along
To improvise continuously.