Complete Definition of "bite off more than one can chew"

English

Idiom
bite off more than one can chew

  1. idiom To try to do too much; to take on or attempt more than one is capable of doing.

#: I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew when I agreed to paint a two-story house by myself.

Translations
Catalan: estirar més el braç que la màniga
Chinese:
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zh:bite off more than one can chew

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