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go by
{phrasal verb}

1 if time goes by, it passes:

Things will get easier as time goes by.

• as the days/weeks/years go by

As the weeks went by, I became more and more worried.

• hardly a day/week/month etc goes by

Hardly a week goes by without some food scare being reported in the media.

• in days/times/years etc gone by

These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by.

• go by something

to form an opinion about someone or something from the information or experience that you have:
You can't always go by appearances.
If his past plays are anything to go by, this should be a play worth watching.

• go by something

to do things according to a set of rules or laws:
Only a fool goes by the rules all the time.