out of one's way

Idioms  

1. see go out of one's way; also, out of the way.

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Example Sentences

It would be like going out of one’s way to strike a nerve.

From Slate

Essentially, it is an emotional response to a belief that one’s autonomy is being impinged on or threatened, and it typically involves an impulse to go out of one’s way to break the offending rule and thereby regain freedom and independence.

From Scientific American

A new play by a dramatist who lives and works here, on a topic of homegrown resonance, is a venture worth going out of one’s way to encourage.

From Washington Post

Richard Ford calls it one of the wonders of Spain, "the work of men when there were giants on the earth," worth going five hundred miles out of one's way to see as it rises in lonely grandeur two hundred feet above the Tagus River.

From Project Gutenberg

One goes out of one's way solely out of pity for you, and you must needs make difficulties!

From Project Gutenberg