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What does "going over the top here" mean?

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Rebecca

To "go over the top" is an idiom that means to exaggerate something or make something more extreme than it needs to be. In the case of this video, "go over the top" means that Finn was trying too hard to make the Princess happy by going through too much to get her the milk. Ex: My mom always goes over the top on decorations for Christmas. Ex: The speech she gave was way over the top. Ex: He went over the top with his excuses.

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