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be hoist with one's own petard
vs
bite off more than one can chew
be hoist with one's own petard
bite off more than one can chew
verb
To try to do too much; to take on or attempt more than one is capable of doing.
How often have the words
be hoist with one's own petard
and
bite off more than one can chew
occurred in a corpus of books?
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