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What does get carried away mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word get carried away? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To become excessively involved, to take something too far.
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In the rush to buy a property, it's easy to get carried away with a rising market and lose sight of financial reality.
You may give too much away on the telephone, it is easy to get carried away and it is not always easy to remember exactly what was said.
Okay, I'm being narky but it is too easy for us all to get carried away by the moment.
It is too early to evaluate this research, and let us not get carried away by monocausal theories, but today I felt I learned something.
I had parents who never let me get carried away with my own sense of self-importance, and that was particularly the case with being asthmatic.
Mom will get carried away too, caught up in the strong opinions and harsh views.

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