over-egg the pudding
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland."
- "The toast was drunk with tremendous applause, Mr. Jorrocks acting as fugleman—“but as we mustn't over-egg the pudding,” as the Yorkshire farmers say, we will reserve the other proceedings of the evening for another chapter."
- "Our established Press bosses are no fools. They know the risks, and they will be careful not to over-egg the pudding."
- "[M]any British officials, as David Holden deduced from conversations with them in the Crescent bar in the mid-fifties, were 'afflicted with a familiar form of colonial myopia known as localitis' – […] Maybe Holden slightly overeggs the pudding."
- "If you really want to over-egg the pudding, you can, a month or so after the funeral, organize a memorial service."
- "Adverbs too ('she remarked, tersely') seem to over-egg the pudding or else acquire undue weight in the mouth of a supposedly artless narrator."
Etymology
Of English origin.