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from the word go

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from the word go

Cliché from the very beginning. I knew about the problem from the word go. She was failing the class from the word go.

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from the word go

since the very beginning from the get-go I knew from the word go that she would be hard to work with.

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from the word go

from the start of something I knew from the word go that she was going to cause problems.

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from the word go

From the start, as in I've had trouble with this computer from the word go. This expression probably alludes to the start of a race, signaled by the word go. [Early 1800s] For a synonym, see from scratch.

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