пошло писать

• ПОШЛА ПИСАТЬ ГУБЕРНИЯ; (И) ПОШЛО <ПОШЛА> ПИСАТЬ coll, humor

[VPsubj (1st var.) or VPimpers (2nd var.); these forms only; fixed WO]

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⇒ things started up, some action was undertaken etc in a very intense manner, everything was set in motion (and developed rapidly):

- there they go;

- off they go (went);

- things really began to take off;

- [of arguments etc] the fireworks started.

     ♦ Галопад летел во всю пропалую: почтмейстерша, капитан-исправник, дама с голубым пером... всё поднялось и понеслось... "Вона! Пошла писать губерния!" - проговорил Чичиков... (Гоголь 3). The dancing was going full tilt: the postmasters wife, the police captain, a lady with a pale blue feather... - all of them had taken off and were now rushing and swirling about. "There they go!"Chichikov muttered .. (3e).

     ♦ Общий хохот покрыл его [Луки Савича] голос... Все хохочут долго, дружно... Только начнут умолкать, кто-нибудь подхватит опять - и пошло писать (Гончаров 1). His [Luka Savich's] voice was drowned in the general laughter ...They all laughed and laughed in unison. ...When the laughter began to die down, someone would start it anew and-off they went again (1a).

     ♦ Егорша потолкался с недельку в райцентре, все разнюхал, повыведал, тому зубы заговорил, этому заговорил - сел на райкомовскую легковуху. И пошла писать губерния. Куда ни заехал, куда ни заявился - первый человек (Абрамов 1). Egorsha lingered for a week or so in the district center, had a good sniff around, wormed out some information, sweet-talked this one, sweet-talked that one, and...became the District Committee chauffeur. Then things really began to take off. Whomever he paid a call on, wherever he appeared, he was like a VIP (1a).

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← The source of the first variant is Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls ("Мёртвые души"), 1842.