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over the top idiomUKinformal(abbreviationOTT) C2 too extreme and not suitable, or demanding too much attention or effort, especially in an uncontrolled way: 太过头;太过分 way over the topI thought the decorations were way (= very) over the top.我觉得这些装饰太过头了。 The speech was a bit OTT.这个发言有点儿过分。 He realized he'd gone over the top with the seating arrangements.他意识到自己在座位安排上做得太过分了。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization overrated protest too muchidiom underplay underrate
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