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go the distance
Idioms and Phrases
Carry through a course of action to completion. For example, He said he's willing to go the distance with this project . This expression originated in boxing, where it means “to last for all the rounds that have been scheduled.†In baseball the same term means “to pitch an entire game.†For a synonym, see all the way , def. 1.Example Sentences
Based on that, and the fact Blackburn play some good stuff but are not ruthless enough, this is another tie which could go the distance.
Their past three results suggest they are not going to go the distance, and I can see them dropping more points here.
It's hard to imagine that most of them will go the distance.
“I don’t know if Tommy was watching this game very closely,†Cey said, “because he let Fernando go the distance.â€
“Fernando’s tank was empty because we were pitching every fourth day, and we had to go the distance to beat Houson and Montreal … I can understand why Fernando was out of gas, because I was, too.â€
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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