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go-to-meeting (adj.)
Related entries & more "suitable for use in a church or on Sundays," 1790, especially of clothes but the earliest recorded reference is to music.
go south (v.)
Related entries & more "vanish, abscond," 1920s, American English, probably from mid-19c. notion of disappearing south to Mexico or Texas to escape pursuit or responsibility, reinforced by Native American belief (attested in colonial writing mid-18c.) that the soul journeys south after death.