overreach yourselfTRY TO DO OR GET somethingto try to do more than you have the power, ability, or money to do 试图做力所不及之事SYN overstretch
The company overreached itself financially.
该公司的做法超出其经济实力。
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overreach yourself• A new generation of bankers who were not around last time will be encouraging them to overreach themselves.• A truly tragic figure, Johnson had overreached himself.• Did we overreach ourselves trying to build them?• Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.• UnlikeSting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rockstaroverreaching himself.• He left, and waited for his opponents to overreach themselves, which they proceeded to do.• One lessonAthens had learnt, not to overreach herself with warfare in two theatres.
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overreach• They failed not because they were too timid but because they overreached.• Then her eating of the red apple was premature; she had overreached herself.• UnlikeSting, Dylan and Bowie, Waits has never looked like a rockstaroverreaching himself.• Critics say the commissioneroverreached his authority.• The Democrats have showed the same hastyoverreaching in other ways.• Such a strategy is dangerous since inviting Kasparov to overreach, may also invite him to launch a devastating attack.• Did we overreach ourselves trying to build them?