AtD translation: which was going some

[Mike Jing]

Got it. Thanks, Mike.


On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 3:45 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Commonly used if someone does something impressively quickly, to say
> they were going some but here it remarks on Flaco's ability to be even
> more anarchistic and bomb crazy than he was previously implying he was
> already extremely so back then.
>
> On 16/08/2026 18:36, Mike Jing wrote:
> > P849.1-8   After picking up a modest sum at the tables, Reef drifted
> around
> > Nice for a while, sitting in cafés drinking no-name wine, or in hotel
> bars
> > drinking pineapple Marquises with trois-six chasers. But he couldn’t see
> > himself pursuing the life of a flâneur forever. What he really needed to
> do
> > was to go out and blow something up. Clear his mind. No sooner had this
> > thought occurred to him than who should appear but his old Simplon Tunnel
> > compañero Flaco, even more anarchistic and dynamite-crazy than before,
> > which was going some.
> >
> > What's "which was going some" talking about here?
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