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go so far as to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, go as far as to . Proceed to the point of doing something. For example, I wouldn't go so far as to call him incompetent, but he does need supervision , or Would she go as far as to sell the house before she's found another?Example Sentences
Marine Le Pen told the same newspaper: "Personally I'm not nervous. But I can see why people think I might be. The judges have the power of life or death over the movement. But I don't think they will go so far as to do it."
While we would never go so far as to predict that the Senate might not confirm Martin—we’ve seen too much—this is setting up to be the most explosive confirmation hearing on the calendar.
Many political experts are concerned that Trump’s dressing down of Zelenskyy and growing embrace and admiration of Putin and other autocrats signals how Trump may go so far as to withdraw the United States from NATO.
"Everyone was puzzled. People were not expecting the king to go so far as to file for divorce," Prof Gugu Mazibuko, a cultural expert at South Africa's University of Johannesburg, told the BBC.
Owen wouldn’t go so far as to speculate on what might happen Monday in Boston before O’Toole, the district court judge, but looking further down the road, he pointed out a potentially fatal flaw in the White House’s plan to downsize the federal government, a group that includes approximately 100,000 Justice Department lawyers.
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