go (or take something) to extremes
Take an extreme course of action; do something to an extreme degree: they took a commendable anti-ageist policy to extremes...- Bodybuilders often have the mistaken belief that they must take their diets to extremes to take their physiques to extremes.
- We're having fun with this, taking things to extremes.
- I have started taking things to extremes lately, however.
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