go overboard
be highly enthusiastic
behave immoderately
go too far
The idea behind this idiom is that of recklessly jumping over the side of a ship into the water.
Related Idioms and Phrases :
throw something overboard
abandon or discard something
The idea here is that something thrown over the side of a ship is lost forever.
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