Definitions
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- v. Present participle of overegg.
Etymologies
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Examples
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American directors and actors sometimes make the mistake of overegging Mr. Ayckbourn's comic puddings, trawling for easy laughs instead of playing his scripts straight down the middle and letting the audience draw its own conclusions.
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I fear this might be slightly overegging the pudding.
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Larry clearly really enjoyed cuddling the inventor's overweight wife and pretending he was her boyfriend to impress a hostile acquaintance, outrageously overegging the pudding by telling him: I'm going to marry her if she'll have me.
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I see what you're trying to say, but you're overegging the pudding.
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I do think you're overegging the phrase "SNP blog" though, this has been an SNP blog from day 1 over 2 years ago and I only joined the party late last year.
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Peggy Noonan, Charles Krauthammer, and some of the honkers at NRO's Corner are issuing distress calls about the overegging of religion in the Republican primaries.
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I happen to agree with Dominic Lawson's views on this but to label him as some intellectual giant is overegging it.
How the Enviro-Fascists Are Trying to Close Down the Climate Change Debate
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Yes Evan - I was overegging the pudding when I said "almost every democratic advance".
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At the same time, it is too long by 200 pages and often undermined by flagrantly purple throbbings, minor mistakes and portentous overegging.
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Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, that might be rather overegging the pudding.
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