Doing the dog on it

phr.

Heard in Cork

To overdo something to excess. To take matters too far.

In use

I said I'd only go for wan but I did the dog on it and now Im hungover ta f*ck!

Posh English

I declared I would have merely one, yet I overdid the matter completely and now I am suffering the most dreadful hangover.

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