Meaning of over the top in English
over the top
C2
too extreme and not suitable, or demanding too much attention or effort, especially in an uncontrolled way:
way over the top I thought the decorations were way (= very) over the top.
He realized he'd gone over the top with the seating arrangements.
- bloviate
- blow something out of proportion idiom
- cartoonish
- cartoonishly
- catastrophize
- fulsome
- go overboard idiom
- grandiloquent
- inflated
- make a mountain out of a molehill idiom
- make little of something idiom
- make much of something idiom
- make something of something/someone
- meal
- mildly
- minimization
- overrated
- protest too much idiom
- underplay
- underrate