do to excess

(do something) to excess

To do or indulge in something too much. I started to lose weight once I stopped regularly eating to excess. I'll go to the pub with you guys, but I'm not drinking to excess tonight—I have to be up early tomorrow.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

do something to excess

to do too much of something; to consume too much of something. Anne often drinks to excess at parties. John smokes to excess when he works.
See also: excess
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (do something) to excess
  • drank
  • drink to excess
  • excess
  • wet (one's) whistle
  • wet one's whistle
  • wet whistle
  • wet your whistle
  • indulge in
  • indulge in (something)