0 present participle of overplay
1 to make something seem more important than it really is:
I think she's overplaying the significance of his remarks.
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.
