词汇 | go to any length |
释义 | Idiom go to any length Theme: NEED to do whatever is needed.I'll go to any length to secure this contract.I want to get a college degree, but I won't go to any length to get one. go to any length(s)To do anything necessary to accomplish or attain something. I will go to any length to get an A in this class, professor—I'll clean your office, wash your car, anything! Go to any lengths you need to, just get me a reservation for this Saturday night! go to any lengthFig. to do whatever is necessary. (See also (to do something)">go to great lengths (to do something).) I'll go to any length to secure this contract. I want to get a college degree, but I won't go to any length to get one. go to any lengthAlso, go to great lengths. Take a great deal of trouble for something, go to extremes. For example, He'll go to great lengths to make a perfect chocolate cake, or, as Benjamin Disraeli put it in Coningsby (1844): "He would go ... [to] any lengths for his party." |
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