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go overboard
verb as in overdo
Strong matches
Example Sentences
“We go overboard because we haven’t learned how to temperate our appetite for memory.”
“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.”
Redick seemed pleased he didn’t go overboard and made sure his assistants had some say.
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.”
“I go overboard,” she said in a video call.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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