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Examples
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You sell it to him, poke the six hundred into your jeans, and pull South for California while the goin's good.
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Because when de goin 'gets tough, the tough get goin's.
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2001
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While goin's good, you'd better go, before the hashknife falls
Roundup Cook 1996
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Oh, sirs! sirs! this is becomin 'the throng hoose, wi' comin's and goin's and raps and roars and collie-shangies o 'a' kin's.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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A dear old lady from the quiet eddies of some sheltered spot has been brought in by the rest of her party to see "goin's on" of which she does not approve because gambling is a well-known sin.
Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse
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Ye see, "she added apologetically," Sol is literary, and when he comes raound he gives us all the news, and there is sech goin's on in the papers nowadays that it jest upsots my nerves to hear him and Sam talkin ''em over.
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I'll see whether such goin's on is allowed in ther sufferin 'state uv Massachusetts, yew see if I don't, consarn yer.
The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Richard Bonner
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"Well, there is considerable goin's on," Mark nodded, and calmly helped himself to a cake that was still sizzling; "there don't seem t 'be no signs of lettin' up on us!"
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That Janet's goin's on hasn't served her neither, but she ain't goin 't' gloat over you while you've got a ma what can steer you straight.
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You sell it to him, poke the six hundred into your jeans, and pull South for California while the goin's good.
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