overplay
verbVerb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they overplay | |
| he / she / it overplays | |
| past simple overplayed | |
| past participle overplayed | |
| -ing form overplaying |
- overplay something
to give too much importance to something 过分强调；过分重视 His role in the negotiations has been overplayed. 他在谈判中的作用被夸大了。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOverplay is used with these nouns as the object:- hand
Idioms
overplay your hand
to fail to achieve success by judging your position to be stronger than it really is 因不自量力而毁掉胜机；高估自己的地位；错估形势