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7 Dec 2022
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What does i've bitten off more than i can chew mean?
What does i've bitten off more than i can chew mean?
What's the meaning of the expression bite more than i can chew?
And How's it used in daily life in this sentence i mentioned?
And How's it used in daily life in this sentence i mentioned?
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- English (US)
I am doing something that will involve much more time and effort than I had anticipated. I may not even be able to complete the project.
It's a common enough expression that everybody knows what it means. (Literally, it means I have taken a bite of food that is too large to swallow.)
But people don't use it daily because people try to avoid biting off more than they can chew.
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- English (US)
It's an analogy and can be easily understood when you think back to the last time you accidentally took so big a bite, it was difficult to chew and you may have almost choked on it. Similarly if you are doing a task, like pledging to do a task for your boss, but cannot manage that on top of all your other obligations, then you have bitten off more than you can chew.
- Portuguese (Brazil)
- English (US)
An expression as to "take more than you can get", to try to do something that is too difficult for you.
Examples:
I've bitten off more than I can chew when I chose this amount of classes for this semester - as it can be very tiring and stressful to have many classes to study at once.
Cooking for this amount of people was bitting more than I could chew - as it's hard to cook for a lot of people.
- English (US)
It is a similar concept to “el que mucho abarca poco aprieta.”
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