Meaning of over-egg the pudding | Babel Free

Definitions

To embellish too much; to exaggerate.

intransitive

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.”

“The toast was drunk with tremendous applause, Mr. Jorrocks acting as fugleman—“but as we mustn't over-egg the pudding,” as the Yorkshire farmers say, we will reserve the other proceedings of the evening for another chapter.”

“Our established Press bosses are no fools. They know the risks, and they will be careful not to over-egg the pudding.”

“[M]any British officials, as David Holden deduced from conversations with them in the Crescent bar in the mid-fifties, were 'afflicted with a familiar form of colonial myopia known as localitis' – […] Maybe Holden slightly overeggs the pudding.”

“If you really want to over-egg the pudding, you can, a month or so after the funeral, organize a memorial service.”

“Adverbs too ('she remarked, tersely') seem to over-egg the pudding or else acquire undue weight in the mouth of a supposedly artless narrator.”

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