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