Meanings
present singular third person goes overboard · participle present going overboard · past went overboard · participle past gone overboard
- To fall out of a vessel.
Attach the buoys so they don't go overboard.
- idiomaticintransitiveTo go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.
You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings.
1 more example
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 56Synonyms: get carried away, gild the lily, overegg, over-egg the pudding, overdo, take (something) too far
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.
Translations
Chinese Cantonese 玩大
- 玩大go too far
Chinese Mandarin 落入水中, 過度 /过度
- 落入水中 (luòrù shuǐzhōng)fall out of a vessel
- 過度 /过度 (guòdù)go too far
Esperanto transpaŝi la limon, preterpasi
- transpaŝi la limongo too far
- preterpasigo too far
- superplenumigo too far
Estonian üle parda kukkuma
- üle parda kukkumafall out of a vessel
Finnish tippua mereen, mennä liian pitkälle
- tippua mereenfall out of a vessel
- mennä liian pitkällego too far
- liioitellago too far
- mennä ylitsego too far
- mopo keuliigo too far
- mopo karkaa käsistägo too far
French en faire des tonnes, en faire des caisses
- en faire des tonnesgo too far
- en faire des caissesgo too far
Hungarian túltol
- túltolgo too far
Polish wypadać za burtę, wypaść za burtę
- wypadać za burtęfall out of a vessel
- wypaść za burtęfall out of a vessel
- przesadzaćgo too far
- przesadzićgo too far
Portuguese cair na água, ir longe demais
- cair na águafall out of a vessel
- ir longe demaisgo too far
- passar dos limitesgo too far
- exagerargo too far
- abusargo too far
Russian перегибать палку
- перегибать палку (peregibatʹ palku)go too far
Spanish sobrepasar los límites, exagerar
- sobrepasar los límitesgo too far
- exagerargo too far
- excedersego too far
- echar desmadrego too far
Turkish abartmak, aşırıya kaçmak
- abartmakgo too far
- aşırıya kaçmakgo too far
Ukrainian ви́пасти за борт, переборщи́ти
- ви́пасти за борт (výpasty za bort)fall out of a vessel
- переборщи́ти (pereborščýty)go too far
- перестара́тися (perestarátysja)go too far
Cite this entry
go overboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20overboard
“go overboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20overboard. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “go overboard,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/go%20overboard.
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