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the moment a vessel admits it was never big enough for everything you poured in.
means To spill or run over the limits of a container, space, or capacity because there's simply more than it can hold.
from A plain old English compound, over + flow, both ancestral Anglo-Saxon words. 'Flow' traces back to Old English flōwan, the verb for water moving, and 'over' is the same 'over' we've always had — so 'overflow' has meant 'to flow over the brim' for more than a thousand years, long before it ever described inboxes or emotions.
- buffer kind
- Tiny memory overflows have crashed planes and banks
- toilet origin
- Overflow holes quietly save bathrooms from floods daily
- math limit
- Integers overflow, looping max value back to negative
- coding fame
- Stack Overflow named after a fatal program crash
- emotional version
- Tears are just feelings exceeding their container
for instance
stack overflow exception — programming error when call stack exceeds memory limit, crashes applications daily worldwide