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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Virva	VEER-vah	Finnish
Raf	RAHF	Dutch
Whitehead	['(h)wait.hed]
Dareios	-	Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek
Stanko	STAHN-ko (Slovene, Croatian)	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian
Berard	-	Ancient Germanic