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Definition of Go all out
1. Verb. Perform a task as well as possible. "The cast gives full measure every night"
Definition of Go all out
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To reserve nothing; to put forth all possible effort or resources. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Go All Out
Literary usage of Go all out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"LCJ Look ye, gentlemen, you that are witnesses for the King, you must go all out,
and come in as you are called, one by one. ..."
2. Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair by Lee H. Hamilton, Daniel K. Inouye (1995)
"... to ignore the CIA assessment and said, he "wants to make the insurgency choice
stark— either we go all out to support them or they'll go down the drain. ..."
3. Capital (1888)
"It was plainly not necessary for Mr. Swaran Singh, for instance, to go all out
against Mr. Patil, for in doing so it was only lending a helping hand to Mrs. ..."
4. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1810)
"LCJ Look ye, gentlemen, you that are witnesses for the king, you must go all out,
and come in as you are called, one by one. ..."
5. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1869)
"... had so much ado to overcome a temptation as that to the opinion of Averroes,
that, as extinguished candles go all out in an illuminated air ..."
6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1837)
"It's not every one can say as much for themselves," replied the sarcastic little
chandler. » » I say they must go all out, except those that got an invite ..."
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