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Phrase(s): go beyond someone or something
to pass ahead of someone or something. • I went beyond the place where I should have turned off. • Fred went beyond me a half block before he remembered who I was. Then he came back and said hello., Phrase(s): go beyond something
1. Lit. to do more of something than the expected amount; to go further with something than was required. • You clearly went beyond what was required of you. • Sharon went beyond the basic requirements. 2. Fig. to go past something or some place. • We went beyond the town and lost our way. • They went beyond the turnoff.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs