Synonyms for go overboard
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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. Hillary Clinton:

   Yes, I know it makes great TV. I think the guy went way overboard -- offensive, outrageous, pick your adjective, but what Marco Rubio said has as much of an impact in terms of where the Republican Party is today as anybody on that stage, and it is deeply troubling. And it should be to the press, not just to those of us who have been doing this work for so long.

2. Antonis Sofiadelis:

   The sea is not like land. You're dealing with a boat with 60 people in constant danger. It could sink, they could go overboard.

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. Wilbur Ross:

   Our immediate concern is whether the AQR and the stress test are sensible and do not go overboard with negativity because of the recent tumult, as long as the treatment of the institutions is fair and not based on wild assumptions, then in principle many of us would be prepared to participate in a rights offering.

5. 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.