Verb
go so far as (third-person singular simple present goes so far as, present participle going so far as, simple past went so far as, past participle gone so far as)
(idiomatic) To reach an unexpected extent in doing something.
I know he suffered from depression, but surely he wouldn't go so far as to kill himself?
Sure he's clever, but I wouldn't go so far as to call him a genius.
Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. Edward Said
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace. Ralph Barton Perry
I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indian is the dead Indian, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. Theodore Roosevelt
I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart. Leon Jouhaux
I wanted to push the envelope, and I wanted to go so far as to actually offend both the liberals and the right. I think I have succeeded. John Roecker
This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world. Douglas Adams