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词组 bite off more than you can chew
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Idiom
bite off more than you can chewbite off more than (you) can chew
informal to try to do more than you are able to do.
Don't bite off more than you can chew. Let someone else organize the party.
idiombite off more than you can chewto try to do more than you are able to do or something that is too difficult:Of course they're worried about their new business - they bit off more than they can chew.Although her writing is interesting and her research thorough, she's bitten off more than any writer or reader can chew.

bite off more than (one) can chew

To take on more responsibility than one can handle. I bit off more than I could chew when I volunteered to manage three little league teams in one season.

bite off more than you can chew

If you bite off more than you can chew, you try to do a task that is too big for you or too difficult. I didn't know if I could even memorize a text of that length and started to worry that I had bitten off more than I could chew. Don't bite off more than you can chew simply because everything is going so well.

bite off more than you can chew

take on a commitment you cannot fulfil.

bite off ˌmore than you can ˈchew

(informal) attempt to do something that is too difficult for you or that you do not have enough time to do: He’s promised to get all this work finished by the weekend but I’ve got a feeling he’s bitten off more than he can chew.
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