英语词汇“to overegg the pudding”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

transitive. To embellish or supply to excess. Chiefly in to overegg the pudding: to go too far in exaggerating, embellishing, or doing something.Only recorded in figurative use.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase]

to go beyond the moon?c1430

to cast beyond the moon1559

to lay on load?1562

to lay it on with a trowela1616

all (his) geese are swans1621

to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667

to lay it on thick1740

to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778

to come it1796

to make a thing about (also of)1813

to draw with the long-bow1823

to pitch it strong1823

to overegg the pudding1845

to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865

to god it1870

to strong it1964

to stretch it (or things)1965

1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I. xvi. 292 ‘We mustn't over-egg the pudding,’ as the Yorkshire farmers say.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby He ower-egg'd his market.

1892 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 8/2 It is possible to over-egg your pudding and M. Stambuloff is doing it.

1961 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 24/3 Mr Foot seems to have been ill served by his seconder, Mr Will Griffiths.., who is reported to have made the mistake of ‘over-egging the pudding’.

1976 Times 2 Nov. 4/5 Mr Page, though remaining confident, wonders whether some of the recent [election] forecasts may have over-egged his pudding.

2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 15 May 40 The bank was anxious however, not to overegg investor expectations for the current year.

单词	to overegg the pudding
释义	> as lemmas to overegg the pudding transitive. To embellish or supply to excess. Chiefly in to overegg the pudding: to go too far in exaggerating, embellishing, or doing something.Only recorded in figurative use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > speak or do with exaggeration [phrase] to go beyond the moon?c1430 to cast beyond the moon1559 to lay on load?1562 to lay it on with a trowela1616 all (his) geese are swans1621 to draw (also pull, shoot) the long bow1667 to lay it on thick1740 to sling (also fling, throw) the hatchet1778 to come it1796 to make a thing about (also of)1813 to draw with the long-bow1823 to pitch it strong1823 to overegg the pudding1845 to put (spread, etc.) it on thick1865 to god it1870 to strong it1964 to stretch it (or things)1965 1845 R. S. Surtees Hillingdon Hall I. xvi. 292 ‘We mustn't over-egg the pudding,’ as the Yorkshire farmers say. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby He ower-egg'd his market. 1892 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 8/2 It is possible to over-egg your pudding and M. Stambuloff is doing it. 1961 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 24/3 Mr Foot seems to have been ill served by his seconder, Mr Will Griffiths.., who is reported to have made the mistake of ‘over-egging the pudding’. 1976 Times 2 Nov. 4/5 Mr Page, though remaining confident, wonders whether some of the recent [election] forecasts may have over-egged his pudding. 2002 Evening Standard (Nexis) 15 May 40 The bank was anxious however, not to overegg investor expectations for the current year. extracted from over-eggv. < as lemmas
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