Examples:
“You don’t have to go overboard and blow your budget on overpriced roses.”
“A midnight snack is one of life’s great joys, but don’t go overboard.”
“Don’t go overboard with your posts and include too much irrelevant information.”
As well as being used as an idiom, this phrase can be used literally to mean that something or someone has fallen off a ship into the water.
“The World Shipping Council estimates that of the 218 million containers transported annually, just over 1,000 go overboard.”
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