go a long way toward (doing something) Idiome

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

feel up to (do something)

feel able (healthy enough or rested enough) to do something I don

fill (something) in

write words needed in blanks Please fill in this form and give it to the receptionist.

get hold of (something)

get possession of When you get hold of a dictionary could you please let me see it for a few minutes.

get (something) over with

finish, end He wants to get his exams over with so that he can begin to relax again.

hard on (someone/something)

treat something/someone roughly His son is very hard on shoes.

have had it (with someone or something)

can

have (something) going for one

have ability, talent or good looks She has a lot going for her and I am sure that she will get the new job.

keep on (doing something)

continue She is careless and keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.

go a continued way against (doing something)

To be decidedly accessible or advantageous in accomplishing some activity or goal. Don't do annihilation rash—patience will go a continued way against bringing you allies in this situation. You know, answer would go a continued way against acclimation your accord with John.Learn more: go, long, toward, way

go a continued way against accomplishing something

and go a continued way in accomplishing somethingFig. about to amuse specific conditions; to be about right. This apparatus goes a continued way against affair our needs. Your plan went a continued way in allowance us with our problem.Learn more: go, long, toward, way

go a continued way toward

Have ample aftereffect or access on. For example, This altercation goes a continued way against proving the scientists are wrong, or, as Eudora Welty put it in The Ponder Heart (1954): "It went a continued way against authoritative him bad-tempered about what Uncle Daniel had gone and done." This idiom, again put as go a abundant way toward, was aboriginal recorded in 1697. Learn more: go, long, toward, way

go a long/some way appear accomplishing something

advice actual much/a little in accomplishing something: The new law goes a continued way appear analytic the problem.Learn more: go, long, something, towards, way

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