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