NO GO

Definition: NO GO

NO GO

1. A failure; a fiasco. [Slang] --Thackeray.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Failure

Noun: failure; nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, successlessness; abortion, miscarriage; brutum fulmen; labor in vain; (inutility); no go; inefficacy; inefficaciousness; Adjective: vain attempt, ineffectual attempt, abortive attempt, abortive efforts; flash in the pan, "lame and impotent conclusion"; frustration; slip 'twixt cup and lip; (disappointment).

Shortcoming

Noun: shortcoming, failure; falling short; Verb: default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.

Books

• No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The little magician's sleight of hand performance. An absquabulating shew, by Von Kinder & Co. But Old Tippecanoe, will soon make it "No go". Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "NO GO": he has no go in him ♦ it's no go. Additional references.

Albanian

tersllëk (bad luck, mischance), mossukses (bad luck, failure, ill luck, reverse, rot), dështim (abortion, anticlimax, bust, collapse, come down, crash, cropper, discomfiture, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flash in the pan, flop, frost, frustration, licking, miscarriage, reverse). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ما فيش فائدة (it's no go), ‏لا مجال لعمل شىء (it's no go). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неидване на менструация, безизходно положение (blind alley, checkmate, dead end, deadlock, impasse, stymie), пълен неуспех. (various references)

French

ce n'est pas la peine (it's no go), calibre n'entrant pas (no go gage), ça ne sert � rien (it's no go, it's no good, it's no use). (various references)

German

Grenzlehre (go-no go gage, go-no-go gauge, no-go gage), Ausschusslehre (no go gage). (various references)

Hebrew 

אין מ�" לעשות (it's no go, nothing to be done), ז�" לא ילך (it's no go). (various references)

Hungarian

nem járható. (various references)

Pig Latin

onay ogay

Romanian

situaţie fãrã ieşire, impas (blind alley, deadlock, dilemma, extremity, finesse, impasse, loss, nonplus). (various references)

Russian 

срыв (failure, frustration), тупик (blind alley, blind lead, blind path, cul de sac, dead end, deadend, deadlock, deadset, dead-set, dock, impasse, lockup, lock-up, puffin), неудача (abortion, adverseness, bad, bad luck, crab, down, dud, fail, failing, failure, fiasco, hard luck, hoodoo, ill fortune, ill success, ill-luck, mischance, misfortune, mishap, rebuff, reverse, rot, setback, washout), безвыходное положение (blind alley, dead end, deadlock, impasse, labyrinth, rat-trap, serbonian, stalemate, stymie). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

blokiran (blocked), bezizlazan (hopeless). (various references)

Spanish

prohibido (barred, forbidden, no, prohibited, restricted, taboo, tabu), inútil (empty, good for nothing, helpless, naught, needless, of no avail, of no use, pointless, profitless, purposeless, unavailing, unfit, unprofitable, unserviceable, unsuccessful, unsuitable, useless, vain, waste, wasted). (various references)

Swedish

värdelös (chaffy, cheesy, crappy, fustian, naught, ne'erdoweel, null, punk, straw, trivial, trumpery, useless, valueless, vile, worthless), stickspår (dead end), blindgata, återvändsgränd (blind alley, close, cul de sac, dead end, impasse), återvändsgata (blind alley, close, cul de sac, dead end). (various references)

Turkish

sökmez (that won't do), imkânsız (fabulous, impossible, unfeasible), boşuna (empty, for nothing, frantic, gainless, in vain, needless, no dice, no good, of no avail, otiose, to no avail, to no end, unavailing, unnecessarily, useless, vainly). (various references)

Ukrainian

тупик (blind, blind alley, blind side, cul de sac, dead lock, dock, impasse, no-thoroughfare, stalemate), невдача (abortion, bad, baffle, defection, down, fail, failing, flop, ill luck, infelicity, miscarriage, mischance, mishap, setback), непрохідний (impassable, impenetrable, impracticable, wayless), зрив (wrecking). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tình trạng bế tắc (lock), tình thế không lối thoát. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: goon.

-1 letter: goo, nog, noo.

-2 letters: go, no, on.

+1 letter: bongo, cogon, congo, gonof, gonzo, goons, goony, mongo.

+2 letters: bongos, booing, cogons, congos, congou, cooing, drongo, gaboon, gentoo, gnomon, gobony, godown, godson, gonion, gonofs, gonoph, gooney, goonie, gorgon, isogon, lagoon, logion, looing, mongoe, mongol, mongos, mooing, nonego, noodge, oblong, oogeny, oohing, oolong, oozing, orgone, trogon, wooing.

+3 letters: bologna, bongoes, boobing, booking, booming, booting, boozing, cologne, congoes, congous, cooking, cooling, cooping, doggone, dongola, dooming, dragoon, drongos, enology, foghorn, fooling, footing, forgone, fourgon, gaboons, gadroon, galloon, gentoos, glonoin, gnomons, gobonee, godowns, godroon, godsons, gondola, gonophs, goodman, goodmen, goofing, gooneys, goonies, goosing, gorgons, gossoon, gunroom, hoboing, hognose, hooding, hoofing, hooking, hooping, hooting, ionogen, isogone, isogons, isogony, jargoon, lagoons, locoing, logions, longbow, looking, looming, looping, loosing, looting, lorgnon, mongoes, mongols, monolog, mooning, mooring, mooting, neology, nonagon, nonegos, noodged, noodges, nooning, noosing, oblongs, octagon, ongoing, oogonia, oolongs, oregano, organon, orgones, orogeny, outgone, pogonia, pogonip, polygon, poohing, pooling, pooping, prolong, roofing, rooking, rooming, roosing, rooting, shooing, soloing, sooting, tooling, tooting, trogons, wooding, woofing, zooming.