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CharmYou Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

What does 'as far as' mean here?

He even went as far as insinuating that Roger was a liar.

This is different from the phrase 'As far as I concerned' 
What does this one mean?
  

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It's literal. That's how far he went. You could say he went as far as Slough.

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  • It's literal.
  • That's how far he went.
  • You could say he went as far as Slough.
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It's literal. That's how far he went. You could say he went as far as Slough.
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CharmYouHe even went as far as insinuating that Roger was a liar.
It's an idiom,Emotion: smile
go so far
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Collins, def. 35

That is one of the meanings of "go", to proceed on a course of action. It is not an idiomatic expression.
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I know what you mean,
but can't we use this idiom in this situation or the meaning would be correct for this?Emotion: thinking
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Are you native speaker?
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I poked around and found that the Cambridge on line calls "http://dictionary.cambridge.org/search/british/?q=far&type=idiom" an idiomatic expression, but the basic use is not. I think you could say that "as far as I am concerned" is idiomatic, but I wouldn't. You are concerned to th
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I think it's a good idea to see this too,
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