Examples of overplaying

• But we are in danger of overplaying our hand.

• Does he mean try a bit of overplaying my hand or try a bit of farming?

• He spent a long time today overplaying his hand.

• I can give another small but sad example of the risk of this overplaying.

• Nor will he succeed by overplaying his hand.

• Surely his own experience leads him to know that the use of the word "all" was somewhat overplaying his case.

• He is overplaying the card of subsidence deterring developers coming into former mining areas.

• There is nothing to be gained from overplaying the agreement but a great deal to be lost from underplaying it.

• A bank manager was overplaying his hand; he received a rude answer from me; eventually he lost the account and lost a good many other people's accounts too.

• At the same time, we do no good to the cause of those who seek to get rid of the bad by overplaying the case against clubs as a whole.

• Care should be taken by the people responsible to see that the individuals for whom the playing fields are primarily obtained are the last sufferers when overplaying has taken place.

• The increasing number of advertisements, as well as overplaying of the same advertisement, are secondary annoyance factors.

• They can use any given situation or feeling and produce a whole record without overplaying or showboating, they just get their point across and finish in silence.

• She was highly pleased with the final fifteen minutes, noting that in those final moments, this series hit every note we could have wanted, without overplaying any of them.

• Another aspect of the communist strategy of seizing power involved the overplaying of the identity between their position as the outcast and the general state of the population.