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Go-to street camera?Julie

Reader question:

Please explain “go-to” in this sentence (Anyone using a Smartphone as their go-to street camera?):

My comments:

Here, they are asking whether anyone prefers using their Smartphone in the street to a digital camera.

Actually, I see this happening. As the built-in camera in the Smartphone improves in pixels and quality in general, people indeed begin to use their mobile phone more often than a traditional camera. For one thing, you can’t always carry a digital camera with you – not the heavy-duty ones at any rate. For another, with the Smartphone, you can pass pictures taken when you’re on the go swiftly around via Wi-Fi or the Internet.

Oh, “go-to”?

One’s go-to thing is one’s favorite, be it a street camera or anything else. One’s go-to restaurant, for example, is their best-loved restaurant, the place they “go to” the most often.

Professional players talk about what they call their “go-to move” or “go-to moves”, and that’s their favorite move or moves, or the move or moves they are best at. Or, indeed, a player may be a team’s “go to player”, meaning he’s the star player, someone the teams “goes to” (relies on) down the stretch of a close game for making vital plays. A “go-to” scorer, in similar vein, is the player they “go to” for a vital score.

Or people have their “go-to hotel” on holiday, and that’s the hotel they go to when they travel, because there, they can be assured of good room service or something.