carried away

1. Overly engrossed in one's enthusiasm, excitement, etc., to the point of making an excessive display of it. Sorry, I got a little carried away there—I just love talking about my favorite artists! A: "Mom, don't cry, this is good news!" B: "I know, I guess I'm just carried away at the thought of becoming a grandmother." She started getting carried away during her story, frantically describing every detail of what happened.

2. Having done something to an extreme or excessive degree, especially by unintentional incremental expansion of the original activity. Wow, it seems our interior designer got a little carried away. I mean, how many pairs of decorative antlers does one house need? I was just planning to clean the bathroom, but I got carried away and did all the windows and the floors, too. Yikes, Mom, let's not get carried away—you don't need to embellish the entire jacket with sequins!