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101over one's head — adjective a) More complex or confusing than one can understand; beyond one’s comprehension. This is way over my head. Can you explain it more simply? b) More than one can handle; too much (especially in over one’s head). I’m in over my head on… …
102over- — aff. a prefixal use of over, occurring in various senses in compounds (overboard; overcoat; overhang; overlord; overthrow), and esp. employed, with the senses “over the limit,”“to excess,”“too much,”“too,” to form verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and… …
103Over the head of — Head Head (h[e^]d), n. [OE. hed, heved, heaved, AS. he[ a]fod; akin to D. hoofd, OHG. houbit, G. haupt, Icel. h[ o]fu[eth], Sw. hufvud, Dan. hoved, Goth. haubi[thorn]. The word does not correspond regularly to L. caput head (cf. E. {Chief},… …
104over there — engaged in warfare on foreign soil For the British, France in the First World War: [Peter] was seventeen and a half; next year would see him fighting. He had learned much of what it was like over there from his brother. (S. Hastings,… …
105over- — UK [əʊvə(r)] / US [oʊvər] prefix 1) too much: used with many verbs, nouns, or adjectives to overheat an overreaction overconfident 2) more than: used with some nouns a club for the over sixties (= people who are more than 60 years old) 3) on, or… …
106over- — prefixal use of over, preposition, adverb, or adjective, occurring in various senses in compounds, as in overboard, overcoat, overhang, overlap, overlord, overrun, overthrow …
107over·kill — /ˌoʊvɚˈkıl/ noun [noncount] disapproving : something that is much larger, greater, etc., than what is needed for a particular purpose Yes, we need a new car, but this huge truck seems like overkill. The incident got blown out of proportion… …
108much ado about nothing — large ruckus over a trivial matter, great fuss over an unimportant issue …
109over the top — too much, exaggerated, ham it up, a send up His interpretation of Hamlet was over the top. Hamlet is a tragic figure, not a comic figure …
110over-refine — verb refine too much. Derivatives over refinement noun …
