give the go-by

Sliding Cube was taken on in front at Randwick and a couple of runners gave her the ‘go by’ when the field straightened.

[T]hey express sweetly enough some natural sentiments,—and what more would you have in a song? You have had far more in some songs to which we have given the go-by […]

If you mean to give him the go-by, you ought to do it cleanly […] and not string the fellow along.