go all the way

1. Continue on a course to the end, as in The town agreed to put in a sewer but would not go all the way with widening the street . [First half of 1900s] Also see go the distance .

2. Engage in sexual intercourse, as in Her mother told her some boys will always try to make her go all the way . [ Slang ; second half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

"Hopefully I can go all the way again."

From BBC

Let this be the year the Ravens go all the way.

From BBC

Do we end up “merely” like Hungary or do we go all the way toward an “American Reich”? So far, after years of studying World War II, I fear that America’s trajectory feels more like Berlin circa 1933 than it does Budapest circa 2015.

From Salon

More than once, he had talked of suicide — he admitted trying to do it with a cocaine overdose — but had not been able to go all the way.

From Los Angeles Times

When he was dying of a brain tumour in 2022, Badenoch says: "He cried because he knew he was dying and he said, 'I know that you're going to go all the way, and I know I'm not going to be there to see it'. And that was really sad."

From BBC

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