go to any length(s)

idiom

: to make a great or extreme effort to do something

She'll go to any length(s) to avoid doing work.

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Intensely curious and obsessively correct in matters grammatical, Ross would go to any length to ensure accuracy. —Christopher B. Daly, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2025

Not just by men who wanted to court her, but by one man in particular—a paparazzo named Ron Galella, who was obsessed with photographing her and would go to any length to do it. —airmail.news, 21 Dec. 2024

Moore plays an aging Hollywood actress who will go to any lengths to feel relevant in an ageist and sexist culture. —Toria Sheffield, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024

Outraged that the president, who has lost children to horrifying accident and terrible disease, will go to any length to protect the son who is left to him. —Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024

Were Guaidó to unequivocally dismiss the idea of a military intervention via article 187(11), disillusioned supporters might look to a figure like Machado, who seems willing to go to any lengths to remove Maduro from power. —Giancarlo Fiorella, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2019

Soon, Berger was putting up more pictures, including Lithgow as the Canadian Cardinal Tremblay, who desperately wants to be the next pope and will go to any length to achieve his goal, and Rossellini, who would play Sister Agnes. —Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024

Willing to go to any lengths to reunite with her daughter, Hannington lands a job at a jewelry store and takes advantage of unrestricted (and unsupervised) access to the company's vault. —Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 5 Oct. 2024

Buy Now 09 of 15 'The Seventh Veil of Salome' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia A big-budget film about the legendary Salome, stepdaughter of King Herod, an unknown Mexican ingenue and a bit player who will go to any lengths to restart her career. —Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024