over-egg in the PONS Dictionary

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Often companies will over-egg what they need, and it's a land grab for users' rights and content.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Again, he doesn't want to over-egg the reaction or the outcome.
www.businessinsider.com.au
But when your situation is considered more carefully, the sensational headlines over-egg the real story.
www.interest.co.nz
Still, there was much to enjoy in the pieces of real quality, where the players weren't having to over-egg a very egg-less pudding.
www.telegraph.co.uk
I don't want to over-egg this particular pudding, and am sure it is the novelty of the thing that is making me feel a certain sense of achievement.
www.thecourier.co.uk
All the relevant information was delivered -- without feeling the need to over-egg the pudding or over-dramatise matters.
www.independent.ie
But we didn't want to over-explain or over-egg those aspects.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Yet he is loath to over-egg his influence in either dressing room.
www.independent.ie
It is as if he has decided the story itself is so strange anyway that he doesn't need to over-egg affairs with showy effects and self-conscious camera work.
www.independent.co.uk
There's really no need to over-egg a set piece with too many dummy runners, feints and bluffs in the build up.
www.irishmirror.ie

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