salir de regla

salir de regla (first-person singular present salgo de regla, first-person singular preterite salí de regla, past participle salido de regla)

1. (idiomatic) to go overboard; to go too far

• “salir de regla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28