Food & eating
go overboard with something
do or use too much
To go overboard with something means to do or use far more of it than is sensible or necessary.
Hear it in real life
Why does the living room look like a party venue?
I went overboard with the decorations.
I went overboard with the chilli, so the soup is almost impossible to eat.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I went overboard ‸ the chilli in the soup.
Say: I went overboard with the chilli in the soup.
Before the thing you use too much of, the phrase needs “with.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
go overboard with the chilli; went overboard with decorations
Your turn: say it out loud
I went overboard with the chilli, so the soup is almost impossible to eat.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
go overboard with something
do or use too much
“I went overboard with the chilli, so the soup is almost impossible to eat.”
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