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单词 overplay one's hand
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overplay one's hand

1(In a card game) play or bet on one’s hand with a mistaken optimism.
2Spoil one’s chance of success through excessive confidence in one’s position: she chose to overplay her hand and lost the sympathy of those who could have saved her...
  • Do not overplay your hand as this will rebound on you.
  • A good magician, he explains, anticipates the way in which the audience thinks, never overplays his hand and works intelligently with the belief system of the people in front of him.
  • Instead, he overplayed his hand and introduced doubts and inconsistencies with his failed dossiers.
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