no go

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.Act; working; operation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

So gracious were the goes of marriage.— Marston.[1913 Webster]

2.A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang] [1913 Webster]

This is a pretty go.— Dickens.[1913 Webster]

3.The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

4.Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

5.A glass of spirits. [Slang] [1913 Webster]

6.Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

7.(Cribbage) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. [1913 Webster]

8.Something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he made a go of it; also, an agreement.

"Well," said Fleming, "is it a go?"— Bret Harte.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.]

No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] --Thackeray.

On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]