释义 |
go a long/some way towards doing something go a long way toward (something)To be very helpful in achieving some goal. Don't do anything rash—patience will go a long way toward bringing you allies in this situation.See also: go, long, toward, waygo a long way towardHave considerable effect or influence on. For example, This argument goes a long way toward proving the scientists are wrong, or, as Eudora Welty put it in The Ponder Heart (1954): "It went a long way toward making him touchy about what Uncle Daniel had gone and done." This idiom, then put as go a great way toward, was first recorded in 1697. See also: go, long, toward, waygo a long/some way towards doing something help very much/a little in achieving something: The new law goes a long way towards solving the problem.See also: go, long, something, towards, way |