释义 |
overstep the markBehave in an unacceptable way: he denies that his staff overstepped the mark in lobbying...- A democratically elected Government may only go as far in any direction as the public is willing to allow it to go, and it will take the consequences if it oversteps the mark.
- There are house rules, like not touching the girls, and a security guard has been hired in case any motorist oversteps the mark.
- Sometimes he does go dangerously close to overstepping the mark as happened at Grace Road last summer when he was reprimanded by the umpires and collected three points under the new disciplinary code.
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