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Idiom idiom

there we go


said after an action has been performed successfully

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

“There we go, the puzzle is finished.”

CONTEXTUAL

“I finally fixed the loose screw on your chair, so there we go.”

COMPLEX

“After hours of careful adjustment, the mechanism clicked into place, and he whispered, there we go.”


Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all dressed up and nowhere to go

    Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

  2. 02

    all systems go

    Everything is ready.

  3. 03

    all there

    Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.

  4. 04

    as if there were no tomorrow

    To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.

  5. 05

    as you go

    While one is doing (something); as one progresses.

  6. 06

    be there

    To be available to provide comfort and support for someone, especially in a period of difficulty.

  7. 07

    been there, done that

    An assertion that the speaker has personal experience or knowledge of a particular place or topic and is not too keen on revisiting or redoing it again.

  8. 08

    been there, done that, bought the T-shirt

    Expresses the speaker's complete familiarity with a situation, with overtones of cynicism or exhaustion.

Last updated August 10, 2026