over-egg

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [B2]

Examples

“But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.”

“[Seymour] Hersh vilifies the [Richard] Nixon–[Henry] Kissinger team for the way they adapted the handling of the Vietnam "peace" talks to the sordid claims of the presidential election time-table, but he over-eggs the omelette. It is reasonable to criticise them for having pretended to the American people (and perhaps themselves) that there was some way to negotiate⟳ a peace which would preserve⟳ the independence of south Vietnam. It is not reasonable to argue⟳, as Hersh does, that the U.S. might have⟳ been able to bomb its way to such a durable peace in the spring⟳ of 1973, if the White House had not been hamstrung by the debilitating effects of the Watergate scandal.”

“[Hall] Caine over-eggs the omelette but it is still a strong story.”

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