Carry go bring come

noun CAR-ry go BRING come ˈkari ɡo brɪŋ kʌm

Also spelled carry-go-bring-come, carry-go bring-come

Gossip carried back and forth between people to stir up trouble — and the tale-bearer who does it. A 'carry go bring come' person takes what one said about another and 'carries' it over, then brings back the response, feeding a quarrel. Immortalised in the classic ska song 'Carry Go Bring Come', it names one of the great troublemakers of community life: the busybody go-between.

  • She a carry go bring come an mek di two family fall out.

    She carries gossip back and forth and made the two families fall out.

  • Nuh badda wid dem carry go bring come.

    Don't bother with that tale-bearing gossip.

  • Di whole quarrel start from carry go bring come.

    The whole quarrel started from gossip carried back and forth.

From 'carry go, bring come' (carry it there, bring back the reply); tale-bearing gossip. Famous from the ska song. See [[labrish]], [[su-su]].

Gossip carried between people to stir trouble; the go-between tale-bearer. See [[labrish]], [[su-su]], [[labba-mout]].