all the way
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8.2
- idiom
- NSFW
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tener sexo
- I'd love to go all the way with you.
- go all the way
- want to go all the way
- willing to go all the way
It does not go all the way when you're in a make out session.
- It does not go all the way when you're in a make out session.
- There's a fantasy that for it to really be to go all the way, it has to be romantic, if not sexual.
- I mean, we've had a lot of transactions that you've taken all the way through the, you know, romancing and dating and foreplay and you ready for the clothes.
Examples
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You went all the way.
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He wanted to go all the way and so did I, but...
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Hey, ah, we going deep inside, all the way down inside.
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Why not go all the way with the guy and see what happens?
Blog text (25) -
The reason she's pregnant is because I went all the way with her!
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'Cause with your body and my know-how, we're going all the way.
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"I can't go all the way with you."
Fiction book (1994) -
"Well, Fred and I, we went all the way the other night." "You didn't!"
Fiction book (1990) -
We're trying to stop our daughters from some kind of sex pact that they've planned and not thought through all the way.
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I was nervous about our date, but I decided to go all the way with him after we talked for a while.
Synonyms
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9.8
To have sex with someone
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8.1
To have sex with someone
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9.9
To try to have sex with someone in a rude or selfish way
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9.9
To have sex with someone, used in informal British English
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9.9
To have sex with someone
To have sex briefly in a casual way
Surface Forms
Morphology
all + the + way
The literal sense 'completely/to the end' follows directly from combining 'all' + 'way', so a learner who knows the words can infer a general sense of completion. However, the specific idiomatic reading 'went all the way' = 'had sexual intercourse' is a pragmatic/metaphorical extension that is not explicitly encoded in the constituents and therefore may not be fully predictable to a B1 learner without contextual cues.
Etymology
The phrase all the way creates the image of going the whole distance to the end, with all and the way showing you go every step. Because of that picture, people also use it to mean 'to have sex' when a couple goes all the way in their relationship.