so far as

Idioms  

1. see under as far as.

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Example Sentences

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

In 2019 he went so far as to declare that wealth inequality was not a proper subject for public policy: “I do not think a focus on wealth inequality as a basis for being concerned about a more just society is terribly well-designed,” Summers told an audience at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

From Slate

"When the police arrived, as the defendants knew they would, Samuel Corner attacked them, going so far as to strike a female officer, Sgt Kate Evans, across the back with his sledgehammer while she was on the floor, facing away from him."

From BBC

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

From The Wall Street Journal