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  • r  to extremes
    he went overboard to please his in-laws
  • r  from on board a vessel into the water
    they dropped their garbage overboard

  • She untied the rubber dinghy from the stern and then, according to Noguchi, fell from the Splendour into the 63 F water, bruising her left cheek as she tumbled overboard.
  • So we have to find the perfect balance of doing something to get rid of our wrinkles and lines and sagginess but we can't go overboard, because it doesn't work that way.
  • Engulfed by flames and smoke, crewmen and pilots tossed rubber rafts overboard, then plunged 90 feet into the waters below.
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  • Jeff Gordon in SI.com
    I think he went a little overboard. He kind of made it personal,Gordon, the four-time series champion, said. "We were all pretty out of control out there. I don't disagree with him as far as the comfort level in the situation we were in....
  • Carlos Tevez in Sky News
    I didn't go overboard in my celebration and it was directed at Gary, not at Ferguson and not at the fans. I didn't even look at Ferguson,said Tevez.
  • Darrell Hair in International Herald Tribune
    I've always been a little bit ...... standoffish in that I've always preferred to let them play the game themselves and only get involved when things go overboard,Hair told a Sydney radio station Thursday.

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