Synonyms for go overboard
go over·board

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1. go overboardverb

   Go too far, be excessive.

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

   Synonyms:
   get carried away

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1. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly:

   No child should ever have to endure what this man did to his child. It appears this man has no ability to control his rage, parents have the right to discipline their children but cannot go overboard, which happened in this case.

2. Heather Patisaul:

   Because everybody is different, it is impossible to know what the 'right' amount of soy is, but people can certainly go overboard, for people wanting to achieve a reasonably healthy protein intake without experiencing possibly negative effects of soy, there is no need to have soy at every meal or to replace all foods [like milk and cheese] with soy-based ones.

3. Gust Sarris:

   Should any man who served in the military lose his home, a retirement home, because they want to be patriotic ? Anybody can see that the HOA has gone overboard.

4. Dan Jaffe:

   The Children’s Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative has substantially improved the healthfulness of foods advertised to kids, the IWG proposals went way overboard and were not appropriate, 87 of the top 100 most consumed foods in the U.S. would not meet the standards.

5. Justice Elena Kagan:

   Whether the item is a fisherman's ledger, or an undersized fish, throwing it overboard has the identical effect on the administration of justice.