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Idioms and Phrases

The utmost limit, as in She would go to the ends of the earth for him . This usage was once literal (referring to the farthest reaches of the planet) but now is used only figuratively.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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