go the limit
Example Sentences
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"I did all kind of drugs, too, but I didn't go the limit because I always had a terrible fear of needles. "Maybe that's why I can't remember songs any more.
From BBC
Lindsey concluded that by the end of high school, 15 to 25 percent of those “who begin with the hugging and kissing eventually ‘go the limit.’”
From Time
There is one way, the Ducks agreed, to avoid squandering a 3-2 playoff series lead for the fourth time in four postseason runs: Convince themselves that they can’t afford to lose to the Nashville Predators on Monday night and allow this first-round series to go the limit.
From Los Angeles Times
"I no longer have the motivation to go the limit and you need that in ski racing," the winner of four Olympic and 10 world championship medals said in an Austrian Ski Team interview on YouTube.
From Reuters
As he wrote Secretary of State Cordell Hull in 1937, “It is simply a matter that touches me deeply and I, for one, am willing to go the limit in helping these poor unfortunates in Germany.”
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
