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View synonyms for go overboard

go overboard



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Idioms and Phrases

Show excessive enthusiasm, act in an excessive way. For example, It's easy to go overboard with a new stock offering , or She really went overboard, hiring the most expensive caterer . [Mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

After all, when the MRM decides a woman has transgressed even in the slightest, some of its members tend to go overboard.

Of course, we shouldn't go overboard: Oregon only looked at hypertension, cholesterol, and blood sugar.

Some players go overboard, blowing through hundreds or thousands of dollars.

But even when celebs do open up, they tend to not go overboard with details.

If you want to go overboard and really pile up the tastes, serve this with Hot Buttered Rum Sauce.

As it was, it was necessary for half the crew to go overboard, stand on the rock, and lift the canoe off.

Neither is she the kind to go overboard in a few days, especially when I was there.

If he should really go overboard with a bullet in his brain, farewell to Kate Bonnet, farewell to his mother!

Artie Lyon had seen Sandy go overboard, and now he drew his uncle's attention to the scene.

So it is harmless, and if we can tire one out I'm not afraid to go overboard and tackle him in the water.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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