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
"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
Soviet publications are painfully solemn in most respects, but in science they go the limit in their search for sensationalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
In spite of the cheapness of wine, however, the German soldier is well disciplined and does not "go the limit"; I have never seen an intoxicated specimen afield.
From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various
