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go so far as

verb

Definitions

  1. To reach an unexpected extent in doing something.

    • I know he suffered from depression, but surely he wouldn't go so far as to kill himself?
    • Sure he's clever, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a genius.
    • Miss Rachel next door had Aunty over for coffee in the afternoons, and Mr. Nathan Radley went so far as to come up in the front yard and say he was glad to see her.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for go so far as. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA