Definition of "over-egging" []

• Present participle of over-egg. (verb)

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• "But there's a risk, particularly in fiction, of over-egging the fantastical until it becomes tiresome."
• "There are a few soggy moments – too many elegiac sentences starting with "And" – and some over-egging of phrases, as in "the poisonous innocence of the moon tonight"."
• "Some of his work might justify the word "spy" in Shulman's subtitle, though "assassin" is surely over-egging it."