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/Sounds like "DAHR" (as in "dart") + "leh" (as in "let") + "ROHS" (as in "row") + "kah" (as in "car")/

Meaning

To overthink something, dwell on it, and keep turning it over in your head until it eats you alive. It's when you can't stop obsessing over a situation that you should've let go of ages ago.

Examples

Don't dwell on what they said, it's not worth it.

She's been overthinking the situation and driving herself crazy.

To dodge, avoid, or sidestep someone or something you do not want to confront. In Mexico the bullfighting metaphor is perfect: the matador evades the bull without finishing it off. Someone who "torea" you keeps ducking the issue without ever resolving it.