go beyond someone or something

go beyond someone or something
go beyond someone or something
to pass ahead of someone or something. •

I went beyond the place where I should have turned off.

Fred went beyond me a half block before he remembered who I was. Then he came back and said hello.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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