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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.” |