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bite off more than you can chew
take on too much
If you bite off more than you can chew, you accept more work or responsibility than you can manage.
Hear it in real life
How is the house renovation going?
Honestly, I think we bit off more than we could chew.
I bit off more than I could chew by agreeing to manage the whole festival.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I bit off more than I could eat.
Say: I bit off more than I could chew.
The idiom ends with “chew,” not “eat.”
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
bite off more than you can chew; have bitten off more than you can chew
Your turn: say it out loud
I bit off more than I could chew by agreeing to manage the whole festival.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
bite off more than you can chew
take on too much
“I bit off more than I could chew by agreeing to manage the whole festival.”
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