go all the way
1. To proceed with something to completion. He's intrigued by our proposal, but I doubt he'll go all the way and approve it. What we need is an investor who will go all the way and commit money to our business! If you're going to clean the living room, can you please go all the way and dust the baseboards as well?
2. slang To have sex (typically sexual intercourse). Did you go all the way with your date last night? A: "You still haven't gone all the way with Jack?" B: "No. I'm just not ready to take our relationship to that level yet."
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go all the way (with someone)
and go to bed (with someone)Euph. to have sexual intercourse with someone. If you go all the way, you stand a chance of getting pregnant. I've heard that they go to bed all the time.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
go all the way
1. Continue on a course to the end, as in
The town agreed to put in a sewer but would not go all the way with widening the street. [First half of 1900s] Also see
go the distance.
2. Engage in sexual intercourse, as in Her mother told her some boys will always try to make her go all the way. [Slang; second half of 1900s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
go all the way (or the whole way)
1 continue a course of action to its conclusion. 2 have full sexual intercourse with someone. euphemisticFarlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
go all the ˈway (with somebody)
(informal) have full sexual intercourse with somebodyFarlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
go all the way
in. to copulate; to carry necking all the way to copulation. (Euphemistic. Usually objectionable.) He keeps wanting me to go all the way.
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