overdo

overdo englannista suomeksi

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overdo englanniksi

1. To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to carry too far.

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2. (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet) o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end (..) is to hold, as ’twere, the mirror up to nature;

3. (RQ:Massinger Bashful Lover)

4. (RQ:Adam Smith Wealth of Nations) endeavour, as well as they can, to suit their occasional importations to what, they judge, is likely to be the immediate demand. With all their attention, however, they sometimes over-do the business, and sometimes under-do it.

5. (RQ:Alcott Little Women)

6. {{quote-book|en|year=1952|author=Patricia Highsmith|title=The Price of Salt|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year_published=2004|chapter=16|page=200

7. (senseid) To cook for too long.

8. (RQ:Goldsmith Essays)

9. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick)

10. To give (someone or something) too much work; to require too much effort or strength of (someone); to use up too much of (something).

11. (RQ:Quarles Feast for Wormes)

12. (quote-book)s (w)|location=London|publisher=Will. Cademan|chapter=Acontius to Cydippe|page=134|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61492.0001.001

13. {{quote-book|en|year=1799|author=Hannah More|title=Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education|location=London|publisher=T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies|volume=2|chapter=16|page=156|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004902140.0001.002

14. (RQ:Grey Riders of the Purple Sage)

15. {{quote-text|en|year=1934|author=Dorothy L. Sayers|title=The Nine Tailors|location=London|publisher=Victor Gollancz|year_published=1975|chapter=A Full Peal of Grandsire Triples|section=Part 5

16. To do more than (someone); to do (something) to a greater extent.

17. {{quote-text|en|year=1629|translator=James Mabbe|title=Deuout Contemplations|author=Cristóbal de Fonseca|location=London|publisher=Adam Islip|section=Sermon 2, page 36|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A01020.0001.001

18. {{quote-text|en|year=1654|author=John Cleveland|title=The Idol of the Clownes|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33434.0001.001|page=35|location=London

19. {{quote-book|en|year=1709|author=Aaron Hill|title=A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire|location=London|publisher=for the author|chapter=4|page=28|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004869666.0001.000

20. (RQ:Tennyson Idylls) / Strong men, and wrathful that a stranger knight / Should do and almost overdo the deeds / Of Lancelot;