go overboard

Verb

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. (idiomatic, intransitive) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.
   • You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings.
   • 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."2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56

   Synonyms:

   get carried away, gild the lily, overegg, over-egg the pudding, overdo, take (something) too far