go to extremes (to do something)

go to extremes (to do something)
go to extremes (to do something)
to be excessive in one's efforts to do something. •

Auntie Jane will go to extremes to make us all comfortable.

Let's not go to extremes! We've already spent enough on gifts for the kids.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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