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
BjÖRg-Ancient Scandinavian, Icelandic
Ezekieli-ZEE-kee-əl (English), i-ZEE-kyəl (English)Biblical, English
Nisha-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali
Hippocrates-Ancient Greek (Latinized)
EarleURLEnglish
Ricarda['rika:dz]