What is "over the top"

a. (context idiomatic English) bold; beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; outrageous. adv. (context from World War One English) Over the parapet of a trench, especially at the start of a futile attack. alt. (context idiomatic English) bold; beyond normal, expected, or reasonable limits; excessive; outrageous.

Over the Top is a 1987 American sport drama film starring Sylvester Stallone. It was produced and directed by Menahem Golan, and its screenplay was written by Stirling Silliphant and Stallone. The original music score was composed by Giorgio Moroder. The main character, played by Stallone, is a long-haul truck driver who tries to win back his alienated son while becoming a champion arm wrestler.

Over the top may refer to:

• " Going over the top", a military phrase derived from the trench warfare of the First World War

Over The Top is an album by British rock drummer Cozy Powell. It was Powell's first solo album, and it featured many well-known musicians playing alongside him.

Over The Top is American heavy metal band The Mentors' sixth album.

Over the Top is the debut album by heavy metal band White Wizzard released on February 8, 2010 in Europe and March 9, 2010 in North America, through Earache Records. The limited edition was available for pre-order on the Earache Records US webstore until February 8, 2010.

Over the Top is an American sitcom starring Tim Curry, Annie Potts, and Steve Carell. The series premiered on ABC on October 21, 1997. Although 12 episodes were produced, the series was canceled after only three episodes had aired.

Over the Top is the first studio album of South Korean boy band Infinite. It was released on July 21, 2011. The song " Be Mine" was used to promote the album. A repackaged version of the album was released on September 26, 2011 with the song "Paradise" as the title track.

Over The Top is a 1918 oil-on-canvas painting by John Nash. It depicts a counter-attack on Welsh Ridge in northern France on 30 December 1917, during the First World War. It is held by Imperial War Museum, London.

The painting measures . It shows British soldiers in heavy winter greatcoats scrambling up from their trenches to advance over a snow-covered landscape. Two already lie dead or wounded on the duckboards in the base of the trench and one on the snow. The others move to the right without looking back. Threatening clouds hang in the sky above, billowing darkly. Two studies held by the Imperial War museum show the carefully balanced composition.

The painting is based on Nash's experience while serving in the 1st Battalion of the Artists Rifles (28th London Regiment). His unit went "over the top", to push towards Marcoing near Cambrai. Of the 80 men, 68 were killed or wounded by the shell-fire during the first few minutes. Nash was one of the 12 that survived. He made the painting in early 1918, having returned to England and been recommended by his brother Paul Nash to become an official war artist. The work was commissioned by the Ministry of Information and painted in a rented seed-shed at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire.

His brother Paul said: "I am no longer an artist, I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever."

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Over the Top is a World War 1 song written by Marion Phelps and composed by Maxwell Goldman. The song was first published in 1917 by Buck & Lowney in New York, NY. The sheet music features soldiers crawling from a treach and attacking.

The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.