over-egg the pudding



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.
See also: pudding

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Leonia-Late Roman
Bate-Medieval English
Hunt[hʌnt]
Teodorte-AW-dawr (Polish), TE-o-dor (Croatian)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Hungarian,
Louisaloo-EEZ-ə (English), loo-EES-ə (English)English, German, Dutch
LiekeLEE-kəDutch