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go to any length

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  1. Also, go to great lengths. Take a great deal of trouble for something, go to extremes. For example, He'll go to great lengths to make a perfect chocolate cake, or, as Benjamin Disraeli put it in Coningsby (1844): “He would go ... [to] any lengths for his party.”


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His team under performed in too many areas but the simple truth is that Ireland have more guns than they have, more toughness, more characters who will go to any length in order to win.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2026

“I knew then that the group believes the ends justify the means and they would go to any length to smear me, which they did,” Boyle said via text message.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 12, 2022

On the best TV shows, emotionally battered characters go to any length to postpone grief, or sever it, or take it on a vacation, only to find that it won’t be denied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

“The political candidate dares to risk the public rejection that most of us will go to any length to avoid.”

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

Nor will I go to any length to deal with his well-known and even notorious character.

From The Daffodil Mystery by Edgar Wallace

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