go overboard

1. 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]

Example Sentences

Keep your curiosity within reason, and do not let your questions go overboard.

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"In the three years I have been here, we've had people go overboard, but we've never had the body go missing," he says.

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Presentation does matter to a degree, but there’s no need to go overboard.

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It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

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That said, there is a tendency to go overboard and over-interpret the long-term significance of any one election.

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