what goes on

Interjection

Meaning

what goes on?

Dated form of what's going on (“expression of concern, asking for an explanation”).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne W. Dyer

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation. Hans Hofmann

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. Clarence Darrow

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. Ferdinand de Saussure

..... it would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions. Malcolm Gladwell

[Only] He who is in the convent knows what goes on inside. Portuguese Proverb

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