The phrase "overshot on" can be used in written English and is considered grammatically correct.
It is often used to describe a situation where someone has gone beyond a desired or intended point. Example: The pilot overshot on the runway, causing the plane to land on the grass instead. In this sentence, "overshot on" is used to describe the pilot going beyond the intended landing point on the runway.
This may not be in the crisis management handbook, even at the 101 level — a place the Woods crisis overshot on Day 1.
Some argue, for example, that the much-maligned discipline of fair-value accounting may yet bring a swift end to the crisis: if prices have overshot on the way down, they may bounce back up again pretty quickly.
The outlook for coal-mining stocks is less bullish because they overshot on the way up, Mr. Tian said, so their correction, though steep, has rendered them cheaper but not all that cheap.
Joseph Liro, an economist who follows the equity market at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates in Princeton, N.J., said that once the actual third-quarter reports for all the companies in the S.& P. 500 index were tallied the earnings growth would be strong, meaning the current pessimism is off base and that "the stock market has overshot on the downside".
In fact, oil prices seem to have really overshot on the down side.
In fact, oil prices seem to have really overshot on the downside.
Mr. Ruesch, who was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, said he "just got a bad break, I was unlucky I guess," when he overshot one of the jumps and landed on his head.
Mr Osborne made a well-argued speech on Tuesday but overshot the runway on Thursday.
Air India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled passenger service from Dubai to Mangalore, which, at around 01 00 UTC on 22 May 2010, overshot the runway on landing, fell over a cliff, and caught fire, spreading wreckage across the surrounding hillside.
In a foreword for a new book of essays on criminal justice reform complied by New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, Clinton says the tough-on-crime policies of the 1990s "overshot the mark" on incarceration.
A drive missed the fifth fairway and he overshot the pin on par-3 No. 6.
