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.
- (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)