to overegg the pudding

[Joel S. Berson]

Used perhaps most recently by John Yates, lately assistant
commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service, characterizing a
statement by Dick Fedorcio, "the police communications director now
being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints
Commission.  ... He said Mr. Fedorcio's statement was 'slightly
overegging the pudding.'"

NYTimes, Wed. July 20, A10/4 (New England Edition).

 From 1846 in the OED.

Joel

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