"go the distance" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "goes the distance",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going the distance",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went the distance",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone the distance",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> the distance"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "47 53",
      "word": "go a long way"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "47 53",
      "word": "stay the course"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "47 53",
      "word": "push the limit"
    }
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Boxing",
          "orig": "en:Boxing",
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        {
          "ref": "1915, Jack London, chapter 20, in The Little Lady of the Big House",
          "text": "\"In a way it's like the quality of muscle and heart that enables some prizefighters to go the distance—twenty, thirty, forty rounds, say,\" Dick concurred.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976 November 21, Rocky, spoken by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)",
          "text": "It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, even, cause I all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, seein' that bell ring and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.",
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        "To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds."
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(boxing) To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "boxing",
        "government",
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "martial-arts",
        "military",
        "politics",
        "sports",
        "war"
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1920, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 4, in The Devil's Paw",
          "text": "\"Do you notice how every one is trying to avoid the subject of the war? . . . I am sure they cannot keep it up.\"\n\"They won't go the distance,\" Julian whispered.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 October 18, Chad Bray, “HSBC to Appeal $2.46 Billion Judgment”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-23",
          "text": "We are very pleased that we went the distance in this case, all the way through a jury trial, and that we were able to obtain such a tremendous recovery for shareholders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame.\nThat opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering."
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        [
          "challenge",
          "challenge"
        ],
        [
          "falter",
          "falter"
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        "(idiomatic, by extension) To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering."
      ],
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        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
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    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "goes the distance",
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        "singular",
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    },
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    },
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      "form": "went the distance",
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    },
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      "word": "push the limit"
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          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1976 November 21, Rocky, spoken by Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)",
          "text": "It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, even, cause I all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, seein' that bell ring and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.",
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        "To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds."
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        "(boxing) To participate in a boxing match for its maximum number of rounds."
      ],
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        "politics",
        "sports",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 October 18, Chad Bray, “HSBC to Appeal $2.46 Billion Judgment”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-23",
          "text": "We are very pleased that we went the distance in this case, all the way through a jury trial, and that we were able to obtain such a tremendous recovery for shareholders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 May 1, Steve Sutcliffe, “World Snooker Championship 2023 final: Luca Brecel beats Mark Selby for first world title”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Selby's charge continued with a half-century in the 30th frame and a fluked red set him on the way to winning the 31st frame.\nThat opened up the possibility of a first Crucible finale to go the distance since Peter Ebdon's 18-17 victory over Stephen Hendry in 2002, but Brecel recovered his composure to get across the line for an emotional victory.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "falter",
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        "(idiomatic, by extension) To have the endurance to see a difficult, sustained challenge to its natural end without faltering."
      ],
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        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
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