go the limit
Example Sentences
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LSU will be playing its fifth game in six days Saturday and would play eight in nine days if the finals go the limit.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 23, 2023
"What role, if any, Russian satellite pictures played in convincing Kremlin leaders that the U.S. was prepared to go the limit," Klass writes, "probably is known only to a few Russian leaders."
From Time Magazine Archive
General Johnson, glad to deal with Mike Tighe instead of Earl Forbeck, promised to "go the limit with the steel unions if they'll get down to cases."
From Time Magazine Archive
So when he learned that Irises was coming up at Sotheby's in New York City in November of the same year, he decided to go the limit.
From Time Magazine Archive
If she wants New York Society, especially if she wants money for those starving children, I'll go the limit.
From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
