| 单词 | to overshoot the mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto overshoot the mark a. transitive. to overshoot the mark and variants: to go too far; to go further than is prudent or proper, to exceed one's ability or authority, to exaggerate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (intransitive)] > go beyond bounds > go too far overdoa1325 outreacha1400 overreacha1568 to overshoot the mark1583 to shoot over1605 overact1611 to outrun the constable1631 to overstep the mark (also line)1827 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Liiij, 139 Wherin, as I do acknowledge they are but too scrupelous, and ouershoot the marke, so we are therin plaine contempteous and negligent, shooting short of the marke altogether. 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike Ded. sig. ¶¶3v See how farre I haue ouershot my marke. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Lincs. 151 I believe they overshoot the Mark, who make it a Miracle, they undershoot it who make it Magick. 1702 Eng. Theophrastus 303 The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is not coming short of the mark but overshooting it. 1770 T. Percy tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. I. ix. 237 Senseless fury..always over-shoots the mark it aims at. 1848 A. Brontë Tenant of Wildfell Hall II. iii. 49 If he overshot the mark one night, the effects of it rendered him so miserable the next day that he must repeat the offence to mend it. 1874 Internat. Rev. Mar. 171 Confirming the suspicion that the value deduced from the former transit of Venus had overshot the mark. 1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) xiv. 339 It is advisable to add this during the course of the titration; otherwise there is a risk of overshooting the mark. 1992 Chicago Tribune 28 Aug. i. 7/1 The dollar may have overshot its mark and could be as much as 17 percent undervalued. < as lemmas |
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