be/get carried away

idiom

: to be so excited that one is no longer in control of one's behavior

I shouldn't have behaved like that. I just got carried away.

They allowed themselves to be carried away by fear.

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Pereira’s career history suggests this will either go very well or very badly and, while this was the most perfect of starts, Wolves shouldn’t get carried away just yet because the mitigation here is that Leicester played on Sunday like, well, Wolves have played for most of 2024-25. —Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 23 Dec. 2024

Remember this, and don’t get carried away in the complexity of the attack but rather react to the simple facts being presented. —Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024

At the end of October following Trump’s controversial rally at Madison Square Garden, which featured comedian Tony Hinchcliffe making a divisive joke about Puerto Rico, Stewart told the media not to get carried away by focusing on the joke so much and thus ignoring Trump himself. —Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024

But don’t get carried away—keyword stuffing isn’t the answer. —Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024