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over-ambitious
over-ambitious adj.
Brit. 
/ˌəʊvə(r)amˈbɪʃəs/
, /ˌəʊvə(r)amˈbɪʃəs/U.S. /ˌoʊvərˌæmˈbɪʃəs/
/ˌoʊvərˌæmˈbɪʃəs/ΚΠ
?1655 R. Baron Mirza Argt. sig. A7 Yet (like most mean men hoisted to extraordinary preferment,) he grew so over ambitious, as to aim at the Crown.
1839 N. P. Willis Bianca Visconti iii. i. 59 This o'er-ambitious Sforza Must not be Duke.
1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. v. 11/2 The fear of either laying down rigid tramlines or failing to achieve over-ambitious targets.
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- to throw up one's hat
- to throw up one's toenails, boots, etc
- to throw up the game
- to throw up the one's hand
- to throw up the sponge
- to throw, put, one's weight behind
- to thrum buttons
- to thrum caps
- to thrust a person's nose out of joint
- to thrust a thing down a person's throat
- to thrust down a person's throat
- to thrust one's nose in
- to thrust one's nose into
- to thrust one's tongue in one's cheek
- to thrust or run one's head in a bush
- to thrust out
- to thrust, to the wall
- to thug it out
- to thumb one's nose
- to thumb the belt of
- to thump a cushion, the pulpit
- to thump down
- to thump it
- to thunder and lighten
- to thwite a mill-post etc to a pudding-prick