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- verb to
spoil something by making too manyimprovements to it
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Examples
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Lepard uses wholemeal flour, which I think makes his cake unnecessarily heavy however – it's already squidgy and sodden with fruit and treacle, so why over-egg the pudding as it were?
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The sort that can be hereditary because the females of the family are genetically predisposed to ‘over-egg the omelette’ every month.
twins 2009
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The sort that can be hereditary because the females of the family are genetically predisposed to ‘over-egg the omelette’ every month.
twins 2009
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"We have a bank of knowledge that is infinitely more urgent than any politician can understand but we have to be careful not to over-egg the rhetorical advocacy because the evidence is that, if we do, people run in the other direction."
How the Observer brought the WWF into being Kate Kellaway 2010
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To disregard them would be even more foolish than to over-egg their wider significance.
Archive 2007-07-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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Ray has clearly been to hell and back in Vietnam and bears the scars both physical and emotional but Peter Anthony doesn't over-egg this aspect, working it all into the plot discreetly yet very movingly.
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They're not, in fact, the kind of arms that have you thinking of Handel, or castrati, or a Cleopatra played with Bollywood wit, or magic flutes, or consumptive courtesans dying in attics, but that's what we're here to talk about, so I dip a toe in the water with a little rhapsody on Giulio Cesare and over-egg the pudding with a reference to McVicar's favourite period, the 18th century.
Christina Patterson: Interview With David McVicar: "I Am Good at What I Do Because I Care So Much" 2009
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Ray has clearly been to hell and back in Vietnam and bears the scars both physical and emotional but Peter Anthony doesn't over-egg this aspect, working it all into the plot discreetly yet very movingly.
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Obama has never seen a pudding he wasn't driven to over-egg.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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To disregard them would be even more foolish than to over-egg their wider significance.
What to make of the by-elections? Stephen Tall 2007
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