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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 kindTiny memory overflows have crashed planes and banks
toilet originOverflow holes quietly save bathrooms from floods daily
math limitIntegers overflow, looping max value back to negative
coding fameStack Overflow named after a fatal program crash
emotional versionTears are just feelings exceeding their container