overplay
verb🔊/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪ/
🔊/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they overplay | 🔊/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪ/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪ/ |
| he / she / it overplays | 🔊/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪz/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪz/ |
| past simple overplayed | 🔊/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪd/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪd/ |
| past participle overplayed | 🔊/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪd/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪd/ |
| -ing form overplaying | 🔊/ˌəʊvəˈpleɪɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌəʊvərˈpleɪɪŋ/ |
- 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