go overboard

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go overboard (third-person singular simple present goes overboard, present participle going overboard, simple past went overboard, past participle gone overboard)

1. To fall out of a vessel.

   Attach the buoys so they don't go overboard.

2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.

   Synonyms: get carried away, overdo it, gild the lily

   You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings.

   • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:

     Of course, Bradshaw goes overboard on the cathedral [at Gloucester]: "a cross, 426 feet long; the oldest parts are the Norman crypt and nave, built in 1089."