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The idiom to bite off more than you can chew means
to commit to something that is bigger than you
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thought, too big for you to complete.
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Or maybe it’s just too complicated. But it’s something
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you started doing or you committed to doing
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that you can no longer do because of the size of the project.
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Let’s say you’re such a nice person that
you volunteer to paint your parent’s house.
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Well, you start the project, and you realize,
‘Holy cow, this is going to take forever,
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I don’t have time for this’. You know what you
can say?
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‘Oops, I bit off more than I can chew.’
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