Verb
go places (third-person singular simple present goes places, present participle going places, simple past went places, past participle gone places)
(intransitive, idiomatic) To make progress or achieve success.
Synonym: go far
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. Branch Rickey
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. Aaron Eckhart
I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before. Tadao Ando
I'm not sure what I'll do, but- well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale. F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too. Dr. Seuss
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion. Annie Leibovitz