| 词汇 | overreach |
| 释义 | overreach verb uk /ˌəʊ.vərˈiːtʃ/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈriːtʃ/ [ I or T ](also overreach yourself) to fail by trying to achieve, spend, or do more than you can manage: The housing meltdown hurt high-risk borrowers who overreached. In the flush of success, he overreached. Don't go too far and overreach yourself. Companies that overreach themselves soon find themselves in debt. [ I ] to make a bigger claim than is reasonable: Those doing sound science don’t overreach, knowing that their methodology will be replicated and their results tested. [ T ] to do more than your authority allows: Some officials charged that the investigators had overreached their authority. It was a warning to the Florida court not to overreach its powers. Failing and doing badly abjectly at-risk backbencher balls (something) up be on your beam endsidiom blow (someone/something) up bomb egg flog flog a dead horseidiom flop flub flunk out founder mess running on emptyidiom sclerotic screw screw (something) up sign someone's death warrant You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Exaggerating & playing down Bad and wrong behaviour overreach noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈəʊ.vər.iːtʃ/ us /ˈoʊ.vɚˌriːtʃ/ overreachnoun[C or U] (DOING TOO MUCH)the act of doing more than your authority allows: Courts act as a safeguard against executive overreach in individual counter-terrorism cases. Already there are signs of regulatory overreach. the act of making a bigger claim than is reasonable: To say "Organizations will be forced to pay for procedures they morally oppose" is clearly an overreach. "There's a real danger of overreach," claims one political scientist. Politicians recognise the risks of overreach. The finding was the result of an "overreach" by the investigator who went beyond "the intent of " the original inquiry. Bad and wrong behaviour act out angel ASB astray at your worstidiom be up to no goodidiom go off the railsidiom go round gross misconduct hellion immoralist profligate raise hellidiom rakish rakishly rakishness unworthily unworthy villainy while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Exaggerating & playing down overreachnoun[C or U] (INJURY)an injury to a horse's foot caused by the foot reaching too far forward when the horse is moving: He was in the lead when he suffered an overreach and had to retire. He suffered a nasty overreach. The six-year-old suffered an overreach when winning the Tingle Creek Chase. Lingo was ruled out of the Supreme Novices' Hurdle with an overreach. Injuring and injuries at-risk battered child syndrome battered woman syndrome be in the warsidiom bite eviscerate first degree flesh wound fourth degree gash granulate incapacitate insult pi pull reinjure reinjury scarred strain wounded Examples of overreachoverreach However, restraints or punishment of scientists who contribute to our growing body of knowledge, in compliance with applicable regulatory safeguards, may constitute overreaching government action. But it is also to be misled by the overreaching rhetoric of his earlier work. The first aim was to conceptualize the problem of resource acquisition by incumbents whose policy goals overreach the office's capacities. It is a matter of not overestimating, not overreaching, not making the wrong sort of comparisons, not judging by the wrong standards. Because they draw on a very limited number of case studies, their concluding sections tend to overreach. At its worst, this categorical overreach produces a form of historical/political theorizing in flight from the actual complexity of its subject. Historians, invoking the notion of "overreach," remind us that no previous empire has enjoyed an indefinitely long life. She warns that restraints or punishments of scientists who contribute to our growing body of knowledge, in compliance with applicable regulatory safeguards, may constitute overreaching government action. The army frequently overreached itself. Nattiez's case is damaged, then, by overreaching and insufficient discrimination. Theories and hypotheses always overreach available data. Besides, it is a libel that overreaches itself. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On this particular occasion, however, they have overreached themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some trade union leaders had political ambitions that overreached their duties as trade union leaders, and they were unable to distinguish between the two. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That balances the regret that we feel when certain sections of the press overreach themselves in their determination simply to achieve higher sales. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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