落水 | luò shuǐ | to fall into water / to sink / overboard / fig. to degenerate / to sink (into depravity) / to go to the dogs | |
刻舟求剑 | kè zhōu qiú jiàn | lit. a notch on the side of a boat to locate a sword dropped overboard (idiom) / fig. an action made pointless by changed circumstances | |
偏科 | piān kē | to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others) / overdoing it / to go overboard | |
走火入魔 | zǒu huǒ rù mó | to be obsessed with sth / to go overboard / (Buddhism, Taoism) to misguidedly focus on hallucinations that arise during meditation |