over the top

Meanings

1. Beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; outrageous.
2. Delivered across the Internet to a television or similar device.
3. Downward onto plants in the field, as contrasted with other routes of administration.

1. Egregiously; beyond compare.

1. Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see over, the, top.

Etymology

The adjectival form first appears c. 1935. See cite below. The adverbial form (in reference to World War I) first appears c. 1915.