go on before (someone)

go on before (someone)
go on before (someone)
1. Lit. to precede someone. •

Please go on before me. I will follow.

She went on before.

2. Euph. to die before someone. •

Uncle Herman went on before Aunt Margaret by a few years.

He went before her, although we had all thought it would be the other way around.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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