"overplay one's hand" meaning in English

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      "form": "overplays one's hand",
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      "form": "overplaying one's hand",
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      "form": "overplayed one's hand",
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      "form": "overplayed one's hand",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "hot hand"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "know when to fold 'em"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "play one's hand right"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "49 51",
      "word": "push one's luck"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Card games",
          "orig": "en:Card games",
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            "Games",
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      "glosses": [
        "To bet too much or play too aggressively based on one's excessive optimism in the quality of their cards."
      ],
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        [
          "bet",
          "bet"
        ],
        [
          "aggressively",
          "aggressively"
        ],
        [
          "optimism",
          "optimism"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(card games) To bet too much or play too aggressively based on one's excessive optimism in the quality of their cards."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Behind the scenes, Mr. Biden’s aides are searching Mr. Putin’s comments for evidence that he is sensing that he may have overplayed his hand — that his massing of troops has managed to unify the normally fractious 30 nations that make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:",
          "text": "Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act too boldly due to overestimating one's advantage."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "boldly",
          "boldly"
        ],
        [
          "overestimating",
          "overestimate"
        ],
        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, by extension) To act too boldly due to overestimating one's advantage."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overplay one's hand"
}

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      "form": "overplays one's hand",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "overplaying one's hand",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "overplayed one's hand",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overplayed one's hand",
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        "1": "overplays one's hand",
        "2": "overplaying one's hand",
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hot hand"
    },
    {
      "word": "know when to fold 'em"
    },
    {
      "word": "play one's hand right"
    },
    {
      "word": "push one's luck"
    }
  ],
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        "en:Card games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To bet too much or play too aggressively based on one's excessive optimism in the quality of their cards."
      ],
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        "(card games) To bet too much or play too aggressively based on one's excessive optimism in the quality of their cards."
      ],
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        "card-games",
        "games"
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Behind the scenes, Mr. Biden’s aides are searching Mr. Putin’s comments for evidence that he is sensing that he may have overplayed his hand — that his massing of troops has managed to unify the normally fractious 30 nations that make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:",
          "text": "Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To act too boldly due to overestimating one's advantage."
      ],
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          "boldly"
        ],
        [
          "overestimating",
          "overestimate"
        ],
        [
          "advantage",
          "advantage"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative, by extension) To act too boldly due to overestimating one's advantage."
      ],
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        "broadly",
        "figuratively"
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  "word": "overplay one's hand"
}