as someone goes

as someone goes
as someone/​something goes phrase
when you consider what other people or things of the same type are like

As history textbooks go, this one is pretty good.

Thesaurus: ways of comparing thingssynonym
Main entry: go

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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