go a long way

1. 1.

   suffice or be adequate for a while or to a certain extent

   Broadersuffice

Questions about go a long way

What does go a long way mean?

go a long way means "suffice or be adequate for a while or to a certain extent".

Is go a long way a common word?

go a long way is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.