go overboard

Keep your curiosity within reason, and do not let your questions go overboard.

"In the three years I have been here, we've had people go overboard, but we've never had the body go missing," he says.

Presentation does matter to a degree, but there’s no need to go overboard.

It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.

That said, there is a tendency to go overboard and over-interpret the long-term significance of any one election.