overstep (your/its) bounds

to do more than you are allowed to do or should do.

Many believe that Congress overstepped its bounds in passing this new gun control law.

Some of his colleagues may have overstepped the bounds of good taste.

• knock the bottom out of something
• knock the daylights out of
• knock the daylights out of someone
• knock the living daylights out of
• knock the living daylights out of someone
• knock them dead
• knock the stuffing out of
• knock the stuffing out of someone
• knock the tar out of
• knock the tar out of someone
• knock up
• knock wood
• knock yourself out
• knock your socks off
• know-all
• know a thing or two
• know backwards
• know backwards and forwards
• know beans about
• know beans about something
• know best
• know better
• know better than to
• know better than to do something
• know by heart