A: Did you go to the show last night?

    B: I did. The comedy sketch was so over the top that most of the audience was embarrassed.

    Note: This phrase means “to an excessive degree, beyond reasonable or acceptable limits.” In World War I the phrase was used by the British to describe the infantry emerging from the safety of their trenches to attack the enemy across open ground. More recently, with allusion back to the WWI usage, the phrase has come to describe excessive or foolhardy actions. This figurative use originated not long after the war. Since the 1980s, in the United Kingdom at least, the phrase is often shortened to OTT.