From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgo out of your way to do somethinggo out of your way to do somethingTRY TO DO OR GET somethingto do something with more effort than is usual or expected She went out of her way to make me feel welcome. → way
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go out of your way to do something• Jennifer knew what a difficult time I was having, and went out of her way to be friendly.• How to be compassionate to their pain and go out of their way to help them?• We are going out of our way to help him with it.• When Annie arrived, Harriman went out of his way to make life pleasant for her.• This is the second time to-night she has gone out of her way to be sensitive to Oregon.• And the recording industry is going out of its way to help.• Neither do they go out of their way to look for targets, human or otherwise.• They went out of their way to make me feel welcome.• To register his annoyance, he seemed to go out of his way to ignore us.• So empty, in fact, that the United States seemed to go out of its way to insult Ismail. 