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.
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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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