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go on before

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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.

See also: before, on