In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
OVERLEAP
neglect, pretermit, omit, drop, miss, leave out, overlook, overleap
(verb) leave undone or leave out; “How could I miss that typo?”; “The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten”
vault, overleap
(verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle)
overleap
(verb) defeat (oneself) by going too far
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
overleap (third-person singular simple present overleaps, present participle overleaping, simple past and past participle overleapt or overleaped)
(transitive) To leap over, to jump over, to cross by jumping. [from 8th c.]
(transitive) To pass over; to omit, leave out. [from 10th c.]
(dated, reflexive) To make too much effort in leaping; to leap too far.
Source: Wiktionary
O`ver*leap", v. t. Etym: [AS. oferhleápan. See Over, and Leap.]
Definition: To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. "Let me o'erleap that custom." Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
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