overstep the line

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Verb

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overstep the line (third-person singular simple present oversteps the line, present participle overstepping the line, simple past and past participle overstepped the line)

  1. Alternative form of overstep the mark
    • 2006, Alex Turner (lyrics and music), “A Certain Romance”, in Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
      And they might overstep the line / But you just cannot get angry in the same way