"go to great lengths" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [英语]

Audio: en-au-go to great lengths.ogg Forms: goes to great lengths, going to great lengths, went to great lengths, gone to great lengths
  1. 拼命,竭力 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-go_to_great_lengths-en-verb-vU4yynu~ Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 英語俗語, 英語引文翻譯請求
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: go to extraordinary lengths, bend over backwards, go to the ends of the earth, move heaven and earth
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