go to extreme/great lengths

idiom

: to make a great or extreme effort to do something

He went to extreme/great lengths to learn the truth.

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Benedict Cumberbatch plays a father who will go to extreme lengths to bring his son home in Netflix's upcoming limited series Eric. —Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024

All candidates go to great lengths to protect them. —Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024

The situation grows more fraught when Andres moves in and the boys go to great lengths to get rid of him. —Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024

What makes the other men accept him back into the community and then go to great lengths to honor him after his death, with the founder of the community offering up his own burial plot? —Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024

Romano and co-writer Mark Stegemann go to great lengths to paint a family that is charming and hilarious in their relatability. —Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Apr. 2023

Widodo’s defenders say he should be allowed to go to great lengths to defend his legacy, which includes efforts to establish an electric-vehicle manufacturing supply chain in Indonesia and an ambitious multibillion-dollar plan to build a new capital city to replace Jakarta. —Winda Charmila, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024

The idea of a four-day work week has been an enigma of sorts—on one hand, employees are keen to go to great lengths to have it, and the well-being and productivity benefits are significant, too. —Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 31 Jan. 2024

These relationships are not supervisory in nature; in fact, successful boards go to great lengths to avoid such hierarchy. —Melanie Hughes, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024