be going on (for) sth

be going on (for) sth(BrE)to be nearly a particular age, time or number接近（或将近、快到）某一年龄（或时间、数字）It was going on (for) midnight.快半夜了。

• hesperinos
• fairtrader
• shapelinesses
• palm oils
• matro-
• change foot
• do double duty
• banded coal
• on the outs with someone
• make a back
• sea whip
• criminol.
• romaics
• prickliness
• swarm spores
• indirect discourses
• none but sb
• bar association
• infrared bolometer
• pillaring
• goatherder
• guenons
• poppadoms
• relapses
• commercial papers
• Elephantidae
• reference voltage
• spatter rampart
• figuredly ad
• spectatresses
• uredium
• dogsbody
• take a leaf out of someone's book
• tidal frequency
• white hole
• heat capacities
• deltohedrons
• surreally
• alabastoi
• emmelines
• put ... to sleep
• machine bolts
• uneventful
• chalcographer
• kiln-dry
• dynatron
• M.S.For
• existentialists
• see, spot, tell, smell, etc. sth a mile off
• lest
• megavoltages
• equal root
• guest beer
• binary alloy
• monocrystalline
• breakup value
• polyoma virus
• angklung
• fundamental niche
• snappering
• engenderer
• triremes
• seminomads
• musical chairss
• numero unos
• make hard work of
• under attack
• intuitionless
• hearth
• grefa
• salols
• syncerebrum
• slack suit
• antileptons
• wiggle room
• forelock
• tailor's chair
• peart
• indentureships
• half an eye
• deerhorn
• stagnant water
• procyonidaes
• figurantes
• tread/walk a tightrope
• tear tape
• under existing conditions
• shoot the crap
• seasonality
• rotn.
• preimage
• regreen
• l.t.
• rewrite rule
• thrummy
• false imprisonment / arrest
• linuron
• -bosomed
• personage
• aleps