not going anywhereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

not going anywhere (not comparable)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see not,‎ go,‎ anywhere.
2. Able to be disregarded and dealt with later.
   • 2007, Harold M. Bergsma, One Way to Pakistan: A Novel, ISBN 1425974228, page 303:

     There is no need to hurry. If Bahadur was bombed as the television program said, then it is not going anywhere. If the Katyushas were also bombed and the cave was breeched, that is also not going anywhere.

   • 2013, Alex Bitterman, The College Question, ISBN 1492119989:

     Again, college is not going anywhere, and a change in direction can always happen at a later date. Regardless of the ultimate decision to go or not to go, make an action plan with discrete goals, and a timeline for achieving these goals.

   • 2014, Larry Nielsen, Buy Your First Home with Confidence, ISBN 145661259X:

     If you or your family or your loved ones are in trouble, your life is not in order. Right? You're plan will still be there waiting for you to finish it. It's not going anywhere.

   You shouldn't get too anxious about your vacation next month. The beach is not going anywhere.

3. Dependable; not inclined to leave or bail out unexpectedly.
   • 2009, Lawrence Barnett Jr., My Music, ISBN 146910847X:

     Music has a huge influence on just about everything around us. No matter how people try to disrespect it or reject it, it's not going anywhere. It's here to stay.

   • 2012, Demetria Alexander Grissett, In Sickness and In Health, ISBN 147726339X:

     He told me that when he said those wedding vows, that he meant it and he was not going anywhere.

   • 2014, Amanda Palmer, The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, ISBN 1455581070:

     No, he said plainly. I'll leave this café. But I won't leave you. That's what I mean. I'm not going anywhere.

   You can count on me. I'm not going anywhere.

4. Not making progress.
   • 2003, United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, Science and ethics of human cloning, ISBN 1422334023, page 26:

     And I think my question, and I have just one, would be for your, Mr. Toomey, on this question of, well, the science is not going anywhere and it is not going to produce any big gains—let me just read you a sentence from just one of the letters from a physician and scientific groups that I am putting in the record today.

   • 2011, Michael Eigen, Faith and Transformation, ISBN 1855757702, page 89:

     I'm thinking of a Bion passage about a patient that frustrated him, one we spoke about the other day, starting, stopping, starting, stopping, a sense of not going anywhere, a feeling that nothing's happening.

   • 2014, Richard Wittingham, We Are the Bears!: The Oral History of the Chicago Bears, ISBN 1623689430, page 204:

     We're not going anywhere. We've never gone anywhere. We're not even going to the playoffs.

   • 2014, Harley McRide, Shady: MC Romance, ISBN 131080141X:

     “We are not going anywhere, we fucked, that's it.”

   My research is not going anywhere.

   His career is not going anywhere.

   • 2003, Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso, The Sun of Wisdom, ISBN 0834825406:

     That is not how it is, however—the beings in samsara did not come from nirvana to samsara, so they did not come from anywhere, and therefore they are not going anywhere either.

   • 2007, Joel William Friedman, Criminal Procedure, ISBN 0735573506, page 120:

     The defense would also have argued that the officers overbore his will in violation of the due process clause when they lied about his lawyer having been called and then told him he was not going anywhere unless he told the "truth," which the officer revealed to mean, that he killed Sal.

   • 2015, Michael Catt & Amy Parker, Fireproof Your Life for Teens, ISBN 1433684896, page 94:

     What is the point of going down a dead-end road when you know it's not going anywhere?