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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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“Let’s not go overboard and be super worried about it. We’re going to be exposed to lots of things. If you’re concerned about lead, talk to your pediatrician, and get your child tested,†Kraft said.

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“We go overboard because we haven’t learned how to temperate our appetite for memory.â€

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“It's hard not to go overboard with admiration for a nonagenarian who remains so unaffected by her fame on the one hand,†wrote one, “and some of the awful things life has thrown at her on the other.â€

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Redick seemed pleased he didn’t go overboard and made sure his assistants had some say.

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I just wanted everything to be perfect and structured, because most of the magazines and the models, they have very symmetrical faces, and the lips needed to be a certain way, but for me, I kind of started to go overboard.â€

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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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