Check and Go along

Check

Check verb - To bring (something) to a standstill.
Usage example: a tree finally checked the skidding car

Go along is an antonym for check.

Go along

Go along verb - To move forward along a course.
Usage example: everything was going along swimmingly until you interfered

Check is an antonym for go along.

Both terms in one sentence

  • Comic Book / Forever Evil At the end of the series, Luthor literally writes a check to Deathstroke to go along with his pardon, because he wouldn't have joined his team otherwise and got knocked into next week because of it.
  • Bellatrix does have the presence of mind to double-check by bringing a goblin she was holding captive to verify this, but Harry gets the goblin to go along with the story.
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