💼 “go the extra mile”

What it means: To make more effort than anyone asked.

“The staff at that hotel go the extra mile every single time.”

Where it comes from

From the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:41): whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. The modern business sense dropped the compulsion and kept the distance.

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More phrases, including proverbs from dozens of languages, at Proverbs of the World.