Emotions & feelings
get carried away
become too excited or involved
To become so excited or involved in something that you lose control or do more than you intended.
Hear it in real life
Did you really order five desserts?
Yes, I got carried away when I saw the menu.
I got carried away decorating the room and stayed up until midnight.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I ‸ carried away and bought too much.
Say: I got carried away and bought too much.
Use the verb get before carried away when describing this loss of control.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
get carried away; got carried away; get carried away with something
Your turn: say it out loud
I got carried away decorating the room and stayed up until midnight.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
get carried away
become too excited or involved
“I got carried away decorating the room and stayed up until midnight.”
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