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. Kevin Feldis:

   This is the first time we have charged Clean Water Act crimes for an actual discharge of oil into the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off the coast of Alaska, as detailed in the court documents, witnesses saw a sheen off the side of the vessel after the chief engineer hooked up a pump to illegally dump oily bilge water overboard.

2. Elizabeth Warren:

   For decades, the leaders of both parties preached the gospel that free trade was a rising tide that would lift all boats, great rhetoric -- except that the trade deals they negotiated mainly lifted the yachts -- and threw millions of working Americans overboard to drown.

3. 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.

4. Lisa Hay:

   I think the federal government went overboard in some of the ways they addressed these protests.

5. 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.