Over Egg

The sort that can be hereditary because the females of the family are genetically predisposed to ‘over-egg the omelette’ every month. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Lepard uses wholemeal flour, which I think makes his cake unnecessarily heavy however – it's already squidgy and sodden with fruit and treacle, so why over-egg the pudding as it were? ❋ Unknown (2011)

"We have a bank of knowledge that is infinitely more urgent than any politician can understand but we have to be careful not to over-egg the rhetorical advocacy because the evidence is that, if we do, people run in the other direction." ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)

To disregard them would be even more foolish than to over-egg their wider significance. ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

Ray has clearly been to hell and back in Vietnam and bears the scars both physical and emotional but Peter Anthony doesn't over-egg this aspect, working it all into the plot discreetly yet very movingly. ❋ Unknown (2007)

They're not, in fact, the kind of arms that have you thinking of Handel, or castrati, or a Cleopatra played with Bollywood wit, or magic flutes, or consumptive courtesans dying in attics, but that's what we're here to talk about, so I dip a toe in the water with a little rhapsody on Giulio Cesare and over-egg the pudding with a reference to McVicar's favourite period, the 18th century. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Obama has never seen a pudding he wasn't driven to over-egg. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And, as we know, all too often our government (under the supervision of ministers, I might add), did over-egg (or "gold plate") the resultant British legislation. ❋ Richard (2007)

As business people know only too well know, all too often our government (under the supervision of ministers), did over-egg (or 'gold plate') the resultant British legislation. ❋ Peter Troy (2007)

Even bearing in mind that he is playing a propaganda game, one still wonders whether it is wise to over-egg the pudding, making assertions that are not only wrong, but can be easily rebutted. ❋ Richard (2007)

Electronic programme guide doesn't use the whole screen; can over-egg colours ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you over-egg the pudding with lots and lots of video interviews (like Flo and the Machine) it takes away the mystique.

"We need to be careful that we don't over-egg the idea that we have a nation of unhappy, stressed children," said Cuell. ❋ Unknown (2009)