Verb
go to great lengths (third-person singular simple present goes to great lengths, present participle going to great lengths, simple past went to great lengths, past participle gone to great lengths)
(idiomatic) To make a major effort; to be very careful when doing something, especially to an extreme or excessive degree.
The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious. H. L. Mencken
I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader. Sidney Sheldon
It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place. David Benatar
All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the world in our head coherent and understandable. Marya Hornbacher
Back then, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke would go to great lengths to deny that they were monetizing debt or engaged in an open-ended money printing campaign. Source: Internet
Although the safety record is good, citation many drivers find this system intimidating, and some drivers go to great lengths to avoid them. Source: Internet