bite off more than one can chew

贪多嚼不烂贪大求全贪得无厌贪多求全

bite off more than one can chew 的定义

  1. Take on more work or a bigger task than one can handle, as in With two additional jobs, Bill is clearly biting off more than he can chew. Cautions against taking on too much appear in medieval sources, although this particular metaphor, alluding to taking in more food than one can chew, dates only from about 1870.

bite off more than one can chew 近义词

bite off more than one can chew

等同于 burn the candle at both ends

更多bite off more than one can chew例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  3. For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts.
  4. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  5. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
  9. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  10. I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.