go so far as to

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go so far as to do something also go as far as to do something

to be extreme in talking about or doing something They went so far as to threaten violence if we did not pay them.

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Yet I will not altogether blame it, for it made me know, as nothing else could, the resources of our tongue in that sort; and in the revolt from the slavish bondage I took upon myself I did not go so far as to plunge into any very wild polysyllabic excesses. My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context "I am afraid I cannot go so far as to say that she does," he said regretfully. The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context (He did not go so far as to say, for her pleasure, that there was a sort of Divine Right there; but, I have heard claims almost as magnificent of late years. Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

? References in classic literature

Yet I will not altogether blame it, for it made me know, as nothing else could, the resources of our tongue in that sort; and in the revolt from the slavish bondage I took upon myself I did not go so far as to plunge into any very wild polysyllabic excesses.

My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context

"I am afraid I cannot go so far as to say that she does," he said regretfully.

The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

(He did not go so far as to say, for her pleasure, that there was a sort of Divine Right there; but, I have heard claims almost as magnificent of late years.

Hard Times by Dickens, Charles View in context

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