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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

Again the flesh of the arctic fox is eaten as readily as that of the hare or white partridge; all other foxes are carrion; even a starving Indian would give them the go-by.

From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Hunter, Martin

But if he get word of our being here before him, he may turn back and give us the go-by.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

The least egotistical of men—and Massingbred did not enter into this category—find it occasionally very hard to bear the cool "go-by" the world gives them whenever a chance interval has withdrawn them from public view.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James