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go so far as to
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?
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"He wanted to do me good, but without meaning to, he would go so far as to hurt me," Acerbi recently said of his father's constant criticism.
DeStefano, an employment discrimination case, but he wrote only for himself and did not go so far as to conclude that there was a conflict.
"I think this series has slightly more edge to it in terms of the crimes, I wouldn't go so far as to say sinister but the motives behind them are slightly darker," she said.
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.
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