go all the way

Meaning

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   to carry an action or commitment through to its end, without stopping halfway

   If you open the ball on these people, you must be prepared to go all the way.

In the movies · 25

• I think the Mets are gonna go all the way this year.Spider-Man: No Way Home2021
• If you open the ball on these people, you must be prepared to go all the way.The Untouchables1987
• Never get out of the boat.Apocalypse Now1979
• He could go all... the... way!The Longest Yard2005
• Let me help you go all the way.Knives Out2019
• No, no. We go all the way down into Mexico.Into the Wild2007
• Their heads go all the way around.Ron's Gone Wrong2021
• If you let him go all the way, then you are a...The Hot Chick2002

Learn it in full scenes

• Knives Out2019
  • Police Question the Thrombeys
  • Blanc Introduces Himself to the Family
  • The Family Recounts Party Night

From the same entry

• across the way
• all the way
• always the way
• any way you slice it
• be born made that way
• be set in your ways
• by the way
• by way of
• by way of the way of
• come your way
• cut both ways
• either way

More idioms

• a blast from the past
• a show of hands
• come out of your shell
• from the word go
• get a handle on
• have time on your hands
• keep at a distance
• on the edge of your seat
• take to heart
• the rules of the game
• to your heart's content
• for rent