If you are ill, you may have ‘gone down with’ a virus.

  • I went down with flu and had to take a week off work.
  • My son has gone down with mumps.

If people receive news badly, it didn’t ‘go down’ very well.

  • The news of the redundancies went down very badly.
  • The increase in price has gone down surprisingly well with our customers.

The way you ‘go about’ a job is the way that you handle it.

  • You’re not going about this very well.
  • He’s not going about the job in the right way and is having a lot of problems.

Every morning, my alarm clock ‘goes off’ too early!

  • The burglar alarm went off and scared them away.
  • I slept in because my alarm didn’t go off.