get carried away
Exceed sensible limits
To get carried away is to lose restraint or perspective, letting enthusiasm, emotion, or momentum push you beyond reasonable limits: I got carried away shopping and spent way too much.
The image is of being swept along by a current—whether of excitement, anger, or inspiration—rather than steering your own course.
Often used as a mild self-criticism or gentle warning: Don't get carried away.
- exhilarationIntense joyful excitement
- euphoriaIntense emotional high
- swept upCleaned or enthralled
- impulsivenessActing without forethought
- lose controlFail to maintain composure
in the moment · recklessness · go overboard · tunnel vision · fervor · rashness · caught up · frenzy · run wild · obsession · irrationality · off the deep end · imprudence · impetuousness · zeal · fixation · overindulgence · passion
- going too faroverdo, overstepping, crossing the line, overstep, cross the line
get carried awayhold back
Prevent forward movement
stay calm · keep one's cool · contain oneself · keep one's head · bite one's tongue
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