英语词汇go over the top的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	go over the top
词源	go over the top. Millions of men met their death going over the top in World War I. The expression means to climb out “over the top of one’s trench” and attack the enemy over the open ground (top) between the trenches. Over the top has been used figuratively since the end of the Great War to mean to do something excessive, or even dangerous, as in “His story is in- teresting but goes a little over the top near the end.”
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