overboard

overboard
overboard (adj.) "over the side of a ship," O.E. ofor bord, from OVER (Cf. over) + bord "side of a ship" (see BOARD (Cf. board) (n.2)). Figurative sense of "excessively, beyond one's means" (especially in phrase go overboard) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon.

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