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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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“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

Much like his father-in-law, he does appear to be willing to go to any length to wriggle out of a jam.

From Salon Mar. 20, 2019

I would go to any length to help him in ways familiar to me, but I could never stake him to a stone house.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

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