See over-egg the pudding on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1839 September, Nimrod [pseudonym; Charles James Apperley], “A Hunting Tour in the Midland Counties: The Quorn: The Belvoir: And the Cottesmore”, in Craven [pseudonym; John William Carleton], editor, The Sporting Review, a Monthly Chronicle of the Turf, the Chase, and Rural Sports in All Their Varieties, London: Rudolph Ackermann, […], →OCLC, page 187:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1845, Robert Smith Surtees, chapter XVI, in Hillingdon Hall, published 1888, page 161:",
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"ref": "1960 June 22, The Earl of Arran, “The Newspapers”, in parliamentary debates (House of Lords), column 471:",
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"ref": "1991, Glen Balfour-Paul, “Comparisons, without Odium”, in The End of Empire in the Middle East: Britain’s Relinquishment of Power in Her Last Three Arab Dependencies, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, page 162:",
"text": "[M]any British officials, as David Holden deduced from conversations with them in the Crescent bar in the mid-fifties, were 'afflicted with a familiar form of colonial myopia known as localitis' – […] Maybe Holden slightly overeggs the pudding.",
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"ref": "2009, Virginia Ironside, The Virginia Monologues, Penguin UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "If you really want to over-egg the pudding, you can, a month or so after the funeral, organize a memorial service.",
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"ref": "2010, Alan Bennett, “Introduction”, in The Complete Talking Heads, Picador, →ISBN, page 32:",
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"(intransitive) To embellish too much; to exaggerate."
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