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bite off more than one can chew
vs
overload oneself
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.
overload oneself
How often have the words
bite off more than one can chew
and
overload oneself
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
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