单词 | to go a long way with |
释义 | > as lemmasto go a long way with (ii) to go a long way with and variants: to agree with a person, viewpoint, or conclusion up to a certain point. ΚΠ 1850 Lady Lyttelton Let. 12 June (1912) 401 I cannot quite enter into his politics... But a very great way I go along with him. 1859 C. Darwin Let. Nov. (1887) II. vi. 224 Also from Quatrefages, who is inclined to go a long way with us. 1882 Champion of Faith 16 Nov. 37/2 We will go the whole way with you in your Radicalism and Socialism; will you not go a little way with us in our Christianity? 1964 L. Trilling E. M. Forster (ed. 2) i. 13 While liberal readers can go a long way with Forster, they can seldom go all the way. 1975 W. H. Bruford German Trad. of Self-Cultivation (2009) ii. 58 He could go a long way with the rationalists in their criticism of accepted doctrines. 2011 D. Harvey in F. Mulhern Lives on Left iii. 241 The Regulationists struck me as quite right to focus on shifts in the wage contract..; one could go quite a way with them there. < as lemmas |
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