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Preposition

going on

1. Indicates a time or age in the very near future.
   • It's going on three o'clock.

   Synonyms:

   approaching, almost, close to, nearly

Interjection

1. Expressing that the speaker can continue speaking without interruption from the listener.
   • Go on! You were saying about those other ones too?
2. Expressing surprise, disbelief or incredulity.
   • A: He asked Fiona to marry him.
     B: Go on!
     A: It's true, I swear.

   Synonyms:

   fiddlesticks, go on with you, horsefeathers, pull the other one, applesauce, bender, bollocks, bosh, bugger off, bullcrap

3. (Australia, New Zealand, especially) Expressing encouragement, see come on.
   • Go on! You can do it!

   Synonyms:

   attaboy, you go, girl, all right, c'mon, carn, come along, come on, heigh, hon, howay

4. (UK, especially) Yes; okay; it's a deal.
   • —So three hundred on the chair then, and can we do two-fifty on the clock?
     —Go on, then.

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