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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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"Anyone who has a child like my daughter - that could potentially die from these seizures - as a mother you go to any length for her," says Elaine.

From BBC Jan. 19, 2025

“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

She would go to any length to track Danglar to his lair; but not here—here in the darkness—here in the garret.

From The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

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