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Spinyman Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

"Get this far"

Hello.

I'm wrestling with a problem of understanding such an expression like "Get(got) this/that far". I think it means that a person who was told that he made a lot of atrocities or just bad things. Might it be a right understanding?

For example:

A: "What are you doing? Stop killing shelterless animals. You got too far with it"

B: "I won't stop already"

Something like this.

Thanks.
  

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Hi, From your example, you seem to be thinking of the idiom 'go too far ', meaning 'exceed acceptable boundaries or limits'. eg Mary agreed to have coffee with Tom but, when he kissed her, she said 'You have gone too far. ' eg The soldiers won the battle.

— Clive

  • Hi, From your example, you seem to be thinking of the idiom 'go too far ', meaning 'exceed acceptable boundaries or limits'.
  • eg Mary agreed to have coffee with Tom but, when he kissed her, she said 'You have gone too far.
  • ' eg The soldiers won the battle.
  • But then, when they started killing civilians, they went too far.
  • Clive
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Hi,

From your example, you seem to be thinking of the idiom 'go too far', meaning 'exceed acceptable boundaries or limits'.

eg Mary agreed to have coffee with Tom but, when he kissed her, she said 'You have gone too far. Good-bye.'

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Thank you, Clive! That's just what I meant.
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