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Competitors too cried hoarse saying Uber had been giving the go-by to background checks on the drivers it aggregated through its service.

From Forbes • Dec. 8, 2014

I says what else do you expect except every dam drummer and cheap show that comes to town because even these town jellybeans give her the go-by now.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner

Oh! you never can count on the wind around Hampton," replied the other; "chances are, when you want it most of all, it gives you the go-by.

From The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by Payton, Lieut. Howard

“He preached on the Fall,” Elspeth said, “for an hour and twenty-five minutes, but powerful though he was I would rather he had telled us what made him gie the go-by to Ezra.”

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)

Gave, in the slang phrase, Pearl-street the go-by, And cut, for several months, St. Tammany.

From Fanny With Other Poems by Halleck, Fitz-Greene