go there

go there

To mention or discuss a potentially scandalous, sensitive, or otherwise complicated topic. Often used in the negative. Steve: "I heard you once had a crazy party with a bunch of the Hollywood A-listers—what was that like?" John: "Don't go there, Steve, that was a crazy night best left to the imagination!" I can't believe he went there and asked Eva about her divorce in the middle of the dinner party!
See also: go, there
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go there

to begin a discussion of something; to take up a certain topic. (Similar to go into something. Often in the negative. This has nothing to do with traveling or going to a place.) A: How are things going at your place of business? B: Please! I don't want to go there. We don't have time to discuss your health problems, so let's not go there.
See also: go, there
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

go there

refer to that particular (potentially embarrassing) subject. Usually used in the negative.
2004 Adam Roberts The Amateur Gourmet I, too, had a bad experience at Agnes and Muriel's (food poisoning from the pot roast, but let's not go there).
See also: go, there
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • not (even) go there
  • not go there
  • come up/out of something smelling of roses
  • come out smelling like a rose
  • come out smelling of roses
  • come up smelling like a rose
  • come up smelling like roses
  • come up smelling like roses, to
  • come up smelling of roses
  • hot take
References in periodicals archive
All of us started hanging out, partying, and before too long I realized, This girl is really neat, but she's in a serious relationship, and I'm not gonna even go there. My husband left me for another woman, so there was a lot of baggage I didn't want to bring into her life.
Erin Hamilton dancing as fast as she can; she has had a rough ride--her girlfriend's suicide, her sister's death, and her own addiction--but Carol Burnett's dance-diva daughter is clean and back on the circuit. (The Music Issue)(Cover Story)
That's why I think many European skaters have already thought, "Oh, I don't want to go there," or just going over there for a while and nothing happens--even people are talking about, "Yeah, it's going to happen.
Jani Laitiala: the Trasher interview
I will go there in a couple of weeks for her graduation where she will come into the Air Force.
Leveraging 'lessons learned' with tactical operations
So why would I go there trying to do these Black plays?
Black theatre - the way it is: an interview with Woodie King, Jr
You'd just have to go there. It can't be described, It's a beautiful place.
John Rattray
You can figure out what they're doing, where they're going, and when they go there you can kill them.
Leadership in a changing environment
Just go there Now I know why American pros disappear in Australia.
"Be carful," "You better get shots," "You might get shot!," and even "Don't go there!" All was spooked to the point of saying he wasn't going to go to South Africa under any circumstances.
Have a go!
It's like Phelps told me, "When you ride the white wave, eventually you wash up on the beach." Seriously, to you younger readers, don't go there, I've seen it ruin great men.
Couch Tour 2005
If you go to a spot and there are a lot of kids skating, you go there, you start skating, and all of a sudden the kids stop skating.
You just need to get that one glimpse, and just go there.
You go there and you could just sit by the pool all day, watch him carve around it, and there's pieces of coping flying everywhere.
The Arto interview: "Nowadays it just seems like really fucking scary every time i go skate". (Arto Saari-Skaten of the Year 2001)