English-Portuguese translations for over the top

• acima do limite
• exagerado
  Penso que é também o que está a acontecer aqui, mas creio que é um pouco exagerado falar demasiado sobre essas 100 propostas de alteração. I think that this is also the case here, but I think it would be a bit over the top to spend too much time talking about these 100 amendments.
• excessivo
  Pareceu sugerir que eu teria dito algo inadequado, excessivo, ou errado. You seemed to imply that I have said something that was inappropriate, or over the top, or wrong.
  Porém, como muitos adeptos dos Rangers de Glasgow na Escócia vos dirão, o policiamento nos jogos internacionais tem de ser amistoso e sensível, em vez de ser hostil e excessivo. But, as many Rangers fans from Glasgow in Scotland will tell you, policing at international fixtures needs to be friendly and sensible, rather than hostile and over the top.
  Apesar de não haver provas de que qualquer hamster tenha morrido, está em funcionamento a maquinaria do Estado de direito, de um modo que se pode caracterizar como excessivo. Although there is no evidence of any single field hamster having died, the machinery of a functioning state under the rule of law is in motion, in a way that you might describe as over the top.

Definition of over the top

• Bold; beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous
• Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device
• Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack

Examples

• He has always had an independent style, but dont you think purple spiky hair is a bit over the top?
• The men were sent over the top to their certain death.

Related words

• over there
• overcast weather
• over the moon
• over the counter
• over the hill
• over the knee boot
• over the course of
• overstep the mark
• overshoot the mark