go so far as to

Idioms  

1. Also, go as far as to. Proceed to the point of doing something. For example, I wouldn't go so far as to call him incompetent, but he does need supervision, or Would she go as far as to sell the house before she's found another?

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Example Sentences

"He has shown a high level of malevolence, manipulation, and I would go so far as to say evil."

From BBC

Barger wouldn’t go so far as to say the Fire Department missed an opportunity by not having FireGuard in place, but focused on how volatile the conditions were that night.

From Los Angeles Times

Some hedge funds and Wall Street analysts go so far as to use satellite imagery and other surveillance services to measure things like the number of cars in shopping mall parking lots, hoping to gain an edge on the rest of us who are eating Thanksgiving leftovers and watching football.

From MarketWatch

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it bad, or for that matter good, but it seems to me the perfect realization of the creator’s idea, and there is something in that.

From Los Angeles Times

These pages on the whaling industry even go so far as to distort Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick.”

From The Wall Street Journal