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overboard (adv.)
"over the side of a ship," Old English
ofor bord
, from
over
+
bord
"side of a ship" (see
board
(n.2)). Figurative sense of "excessively, beyond one's means" (especially in phrase
go overboard
) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon.
