הִרְחִיק לֶכֶת

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To go far

הגדרה (אנגלית)

To go to a distant place. By metaphor: to exaggerate, to take extreme actions or opinions.

("And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far, that ye may not transgress against me" - Shemot 8:24 (Pharaoh to Moses and Aaron), and also: "And when the people were far from going, he looked, and, behold, the bank of the river, which he was going up, was very high and very wide" - H.N. Bialik/ Megillat The man (7), and so: "We have gone far to strike, and behold, even here time is running out, / From the short and the long days" - Nathan Jonathan / From the Poems of the Call, and so: "A woman is a woman and her riddle, / But the solvers have gone far to strike: / Oh, how complicated is a simple woman - / And how simple is the complicated!" - Hananiah Reichman / Proverbs and Sayings / Daughters Eve)