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there you go

there you go

426 4.9
Say this to show you have given something or finished a task
  • idiom
  • Informal
translation icon : ya está
  • You've been lovely and there you go, another successful show.
  • there you go again
  • Yeah, there you go
  • Well, there you go

And so you put there you go Put it on the mic.

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Examples

  • After all that hard work, there you go, you finally achieved your goal.

  • So yeah, nice new clean sink and there you go, nice clean kitchen again.

  • In fact, we actually maybe said, there you go, good job, right?

    Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy

  • "I did ask and she said for me to ask you --" "Well, there you go."

    Fiction book (1999)

  • "There you go, good business sense, you can really use it these days."

    Fiction book (2002)

  • So there you go, you heard it from the creator.

    Hannah (Sex & Relationships Education)

  • I listen. "Well, there you go," Amanda said in encouragement.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • And that's more than I've ever said to my own parents, so there you go.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • You finished the project ahead of schedule, and there you go, a well-deserved reward.

  • Just follow the instructions, then there you go, you'll have a delicious meal.

Synonyms

there you are
vsthere you go
113 3.5

Say this when you find what you are looking for or when something becomes clear

acknowledges completion or expresses casual satisfaction rather than finding
there you have it
vsthere you go
35 6.1

That shows the work is finished or the result is ready

acknowledges the action or shows satisfaction rather than emphasis
mission accomplished
vsthere you go
11 3.7

A phrase people say when they finish a task successfully

is a casual acknowledgement or expression of satisfaction not a formal success claim

How Magical

abracadabra
6 8.5
hey presto
  • Informal
1 8.7
voilà
1 8.6
there you go
  • Informal
426 4.9

Surface Forms

there you go main

Morphology

there + you + go

The phrase has a loose, partially compositional relation to its parts: in contexts of handing or completing something the words 'there' + 'you' + 'go' point to the result being presented, so a learner who knows the constituents may infer the intended meaning in context. However, the fixed pragmatic uses (acknowledgement, satisfaction, or encouragement) and the idiomaticized function are not fully predictable from the literal meanings, making comprehension context-dependent rather than transparently derivable.

Etymology

There you go comes from the simple action of giving or showing something to someone. When you hand someone an item or point at a finished task and say there, you show it is ready, so the phrase now means 'that's done' or 'well done'.