Meaning of GO IT ALONE and FLY SOLO - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English when we use the phrase "go it alone" it means that you're going to do something
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all by yourself.
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A good example of this could be if you and your brother used to have a business together
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and you decided that it was time for you to go it alone.
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That would mean that you decided it was time to have your own business and to run your
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own business all by yourself.
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So if you had a partnership with your brother and you and your brother decided to part ways
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and to start your own businesses you would say that you decided to go it alone.
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And again that would mean that you're doing it all by yourself.
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Sometimes at work, maybe you're working on a project, and you decide that you might get
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more done if you go it alone this time around.
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So that would mean that you're going to work on the project all by yourself.
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I think you get the point!
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We have another phrase that's very similar and it's to "fly solo".
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This has almost exactly the same meaning.
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When you fly solo you aren't actually flying in the air like you are on an airplane but
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it again means that you have decided to do something by yourself.
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So another great example, maybe at work there's a new project and they want a bunch of people
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to work on it but you say, "Hey!
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I think I might fly solo on this one.
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I think I might get more done."
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Sometimes I like to fly solo because when I work with other people I feel like it slows
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me down sometimes.
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So, I like to fly solo.
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