overplay hand



overplay your hand

to do more than you should I think people did want change, but the mayor may have overplayed his hand by making so many changes so quickly.
See also: hand

overplay your hand

  (mainly American)
to try to get more advantages from a situation than you are likely to get I'm going to ask for promotion but I think it might be overplaying my hand to ask to work fewer hours as well.
See also: hand

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Sung-Hyunsung-hyunKorean
ErinER-inEnglish, Irish
Rais-Arabic
Onesiphoros-Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Colenekah-LEENEnglish (Rare)
Sharma-Indian, Hindi