over-egg the pudding

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To embellish too much; to exaggerate. intransitive
    — But hard riding men, in strange countries, are apt now and then to over-egg the pudding, as the Yorkshire landlord told his Grace of Cleveland.

词形变化

over-eggs the pudding present,singular,third-person over-egging the pudding participle,present over-egged the pudding participle,past over-egged the pudding past overegg the pudding alternative

词源

Of English origin.
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