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go to great lengths

verb

Definitions

  1. To make a major effort

    To make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.

    • […] They said good-bye on the eleventh, and the Portuguese noblemen saw him off, going to great lengths to show him respect."
    • Most scholars writing on the mafia were going to great lengths to demonstrate that it did not exist—and the mobsters wanted to keep their brotherhood secret.

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