Over-confidence

Over-confidence and an unusually violent antic of the Elsinore caused the disaster.

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Over-confidence had led to legislative overreaching and, at the same time, had provoked the smug complacency that accrues to the self-satisfied.

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Over-confidence had led to legislative overreaching and, at the same time, had provoked the smug complacency that accrues to the self-satisfied.

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Over-confidence is always the kiss of death on Survivor.

Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Samoa: Macrame. 2009

Over-confidence and fear have a central place in investment history.

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Over-confidence may be pardoned in a man who had so often driven before him the redoubtable cohorts of the modern Alexander.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Various

Over-confidence and a consequent want of energy may have had something to do with it; but the chief reason is to be found in the disgracefully defective organisation of the Party.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 Various

Over-confidence will do more than misplays or anything else to bring defeat.

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Over-confidence in men and things has resulted in speculation and precipitated bankruptcy.

Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

Over-confidence at golf is almost as bad as timidity.

The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928