over-egg 
verb (in phrase over-egg the pudding)
Go too far in embellishing, exaggerating, or doing something: if you’re telling fibs, keep them simple—never over-egg the pudding...
- To say I had a spring in my step would be over-egging the pudding but I might well have done if I'd been wearing what I believe are known as ‘trainers’ rather than Oxford brogues.
- The Scotland coach has the twin task of persuading the public to come out to pay and his players to come out of their shells, but it is still possible that he is over-egging the pudding just a little.
- But here in Colchester, the Trust that runs the town's NHS hospitals thinks that approach is over-egging the pudding.
- up to a point
- up to date
- up to eleven
- up to mud
- up to no good
- up to one's armpits
- up to one's ears in
- up to one's elbows in
- up to one's neck in
- up to one's (old) tricks
- up top
- up to par
- up to putty
- up to scratch
- up to snuff
- up to speed
- (up) to the hilt
- up to the mark
- up to the minute
- up to the (or one's) eyeballs
- up to the (or one's) eyes (in)
- uptown
- uptowner
- uptrend
- upturn