go the distance

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go all the way; do everything

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Halle Berry thinks that not all relationships are meant to go the distance. But just how long a distance is she talking about? Maybe some relationships only make it as far as a first date. Others last for a year or two. Some make it all the way down the aisle, but still fall short in the end. With half of marriages in the U.S. ending in divorce, not that many relationships last forever, or go the distance.

When we say that something goes the distance, we aren’t talking about a real, measurable length of space. The distance isn’t one mile, or two, or ten. To go the distance means to go all the way, or continue until something is finished, no matter how difficult it becomes. If you go the distance at school, you study hard and do as well as you can until you graduate. And if you go the distance in a relationship, you work through every problem that arises, and never break up.

Halle Berry and her ex, Gabriel Aubry, didn’t manage to go the distance together. They broke up after nearly five years as a couple. Do you think it’s difficult to go the distance in a relationship? In what parts of your life have you gone the distance?

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“I always try to go the distance for my friends.”

“Helen went the distance in high school and it paid off when she earned a scholarship to college.”

“If you want to get ahead at work, you’ll have to go the distance on every project.”

Winners

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	to be successful by Bitten by an Arab bug
	go to the end, by bienemaja
	to complete a course of action by Mostafa5
	to cotinue do'n a thing until the end by chomo

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