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
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
Soviet publications are painfully solemn in most respects, but in science they go the limit in their search for sensationalism.
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
Rather would he go the limit of Stevenson’s Saint Ives: “If it is a question of going to hell, go to hell like a gentleman, with your ancestors!”
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
