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
Kalyana-Indian, Telugu
Arushi-Hinduism, Indian, Hindi
OlofOL-ofSwedish
Aiolos-Greek Mythology
DottieDAHT-eeEnglish
ArsÈNe-French