over-egg
See also: overegg
English
Alternative forms
- overegg
Etymology
From the phrase to over-egg the pudding
Verb
over-egg (third-person singular simple present over-eggs, present participle over-egging, simple past and past participle over-egged)
- To overembellish.
- 2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian:
- Janis Joplin sounds unerringly like Ray Stevens’ Bridget the Midget in places. While Raise Your Hand is a pretty undeniable Stax-on-helium workout, her version of the Bee Gees’ To Love Somebody is overegged.
- 2014 July 26, “Argentina's debt saga: Unsettling times: The clock is ticking toward an Argentine default”, in The Economist:
- NML insists Argentina is overegging the RUFO worry: given that the country has appealed its case all the way up to the Supreme Court and been rebuffed, a judge is unlikely to deem any deal “voluntary”.
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