See go to town on Wiktionary
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"text": "She really went to town with the party preparations.",
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"ref": "2014 November 12, Calum MacLeod, “As with 2008 Olympics, China spends big to look good”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-11-14",
"text": "The greatest impact, good and bad, fell on the city's northeast suburbs, 60-plus minutes from the downtown Huairou district, a key APEC venue. Obama and other VIPs spent just seven hours there Tuesday, but Huairou went to town as perhaps only China can. The district spent about $4.9 billion preparing for APEC, according to state media including the Beijing Youth Daily and China Daily newspapers.",
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"ref": "2018 October 15, Steven Pye, “When Gary Lineker scored four goals to help England win 4-2 in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
"text": "Never slow to bang the drum, the English press went to town, calling Lineker the “Matador of Madrid” and announcing that “Spain are Linekered.”",
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"ref": "2018 November, N. K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Hachette",
"text": "The news channels had been the first to figure out that particular wrinkle, but the religions really went to town with it.",
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"ref": "2022 May 29, Tom Lamont, quoting Jim Howick, “‘We were always trying to push boundaries’: Jim Howick on breaking taboos, coping with life and the joy of dogs”, in The Observer, →ISSN",
"text": "Oh, I went to town in the last lockdown, spent a lot of money on the paints, the brushes, the figurines for a game called Hero Quest.",
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"word": "have a field day"
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"ref": "2018 October 15, Steven Pye, “When Gary Lineker scored four goals to help England win 4-2 in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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},
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"ref": "2018 November, N. K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?, Hachette",
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},
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