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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

Mine are a fast lot, but he has given them the go-by.

From Settling Day by Gould, Nat

It may be better to gie the particulars the go-by till I see you more privately.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

If you don't keep your word better'n that, I'll play tricks on you as would give the monkeys the go-by!'

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de