HE WENT TO GREAT LENGTHS TO HIDE WHAT HE DID

go to great lengths (to do something) If you say that someone goes to great lengths to achieve something, you mean that they try very hard and perhaps do extreme things in order to achieve it.

variations

go to some lengths (to do something)/

go to any lengths (to do something)

Greta Garbo went to great lengths to hide from reporters and photographers.

He'll go to any lengths to get what he wants.

They have gone to great lengths to make us feel welcome.

The lengths that some people will go to get a ticket!

RAZOR SHARP

 

Razor sharp means extremely sharp, either in a literal sense, e.g.: These animals have razor-sharp teeth, or to describe a person who thinks very clearly and quickly. With this second sense we can also use it to refer to a text, a script, an answer, etc

C1 level_Photocopies from 13^th January + ♪ News bulletin from 12^th January + ♪ Knock on wood by Eddie Floyd

C1 level_Photocopies from 15^th January + ♪ Interview with Wilhelm Verwoerd + ♪ Linger by The Cranberries

C2 level_photocopies from 14^th January + ♫ The Year of the Cat by Al Stewart

C2 level_photocopies from 16^th January + ♫ radio programme + ♫ MidnightSpecial by The CCC

MANY A ROAD

many a + singular noun  is a formal or literary way of saying a large number of something.

    Many a good man has been destroyed by booze

1A2 level_photocopies from 9^th January + ♪ One WayTicket by Eruption

C1 level_Photocopies from 8^th January + ♪ News bulletin from 5^th January

C1 level_ ♪ The Rhythm of theFalling Rain by The Cascades

C2 level_photocopies from 7^th January_1: TO+v-ing + ♫ The Rhythm of theFalling Rain by The Cascades

C2 level_photocopies from 7^th January_2: What's in a name

C2 level_photocopies from 9^th January_1:News bulletin + ♫ News bulletin from 5^th January

C2 level_photocopies from 9^th January_2:Happy endings + ♫ The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals