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in one go: meaning and explanation

If you do something all in one go, you do it in one action (without any breaks or without stopping).

For example, if you have a long journey to do then you might decide to break it up into a series of smaller journeys instead of doing the entire journey all in one go.

Have a go at these micro-dictation exercises to hear this expression being used in context – how much can you understand?

Listening exercises

Dictation #1

Accent: North America

London Rome, .
We're London Rome, aren't do it go.

About the sentence

...We're driving...

This is an example of the use of the present continuous to describe a future arrangement. e.g. I'm flying to Rome next Saturday, and then returning the following Friday.

Dictation #2

Accent: Northern England

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Dictation #3

Accent: Scotland

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Extra practice

Here are some questions/links to help you learn the new vocabulary:

  • If you won the lottery, would you prefer to receive your prize all in one go or bit by bit (e.g. a fixed amount every month)? Why?
  • Have you ever watched an entire TV series all in one go?
  • When you have something painful, boring or unpleasant to do, do you prefer to do it all in one go or a little bit at a time? For example, I don't like tidying my flat, so I try to do it all in one go once a week, instead of doing a little bit every day.

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