over-egg the pudding

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over-egg the pudding (British)

to spoil something by trying too hard to improve it As a director, I think he has a tendency to over-egg the pudding, with a few too many gorgeous shots of the countryside.

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Not to over-egg the pudding, just to let the song breathe. Bit of Sheffield steel comes CROONER: Richard Hawley to the Phil; ... by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) Over-egg the pudding with an indigestible array of freaks and psychotics dripping in bile and self-hatred. TV Dinners by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk I don't want to over-egg the pudding on this one but the question popped into my head again this week when I saw that Gary McAllister was fourth favourite to take over from Peter Reid at Leeds Unit-ed. LETTERS: WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT OUR MEN?; BACK of the NET THE WEBSITE ... by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)			out-of-pocket expenses outset outside outside of outstay welcome oven over a barrel over again over and above over easy over head over my dead body Over my dead body! over the counter over the edge over the hill over the hump over the line over the long haul over the long term over the moon over the short haul over the short term over the top over the wall over-egg the pudding overboard overdo it overdose overdrive overflow overflow into overflow with overplay hand overstep overstep bounds overstep the mark owe owe a debt of gratitude owe it to to owing to owl own man own person own woman own worst enemy pace pace around pace back and forth pack pack a punch			Over-And-Under Over-Applied Overhead Over-arm Over-Base Compensation over-bite over-bite over-bite Over-Borrowed Over-busy Over-By-Over Over-capacity over-charge Over-Clocked Processor Over-Complete Dictionary Over-Complete Wavelet Transform Over-Constrained Dispatch Over-consumption over-correct Over-Crossing over-crowding Over-Current Latchup Protection Over-damping Over-damping Over-damping OVer-DEDuction Over-Determined Sub-Band Over-Draft Protection over-eager over-egg the pudding over-embellish over-embellished Over-equipped Over-Excitation Limiter Over-fishing Over-Flow Drain Over-garment Over-grazing Over-ground Car Park Over-Hedging Over-hunting Over-hunting Over-hunting Over-indulgence Over-indulgence Over-Investment Over-Investment Over-Issue Over-Issue Over-Issued Over-Issued Over-Issues Over-Issues Over-Issuing Over-Issuing Over-lay Over-lay Over-lay Over-lay Over-lighting

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