"got out over their skis"

[Garson O'Toole]

Urban Dictionary has an entry for the figurative use of "out over our
skis" with a date of 2006 (if the date is accurate).

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=out%20over%20our%20skis

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out over our skis

To get entirely too far ahead of yourself

Look, I just said that I liked the girl, not that I wanna marry her.
Let's not get out over our skis, here.
by McClure Oct 13, 2006
[End excerpt]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Maybe others have noted this before, but it was new to me when I just read
> it online in Institutional Investor:
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> Building up cash reserves may seem like a no-brainer =97 who could say no t=
> o
> virtually free money in a time of uncertainty? =97 but experts have concern=
> s.
> =93A lot of people got out over their skis in terms of how they were
> investing their cash right before the crisis, and I have some worries again
> today,=94 says Barry Smith, global head of State Street Global Advisors=92 =
> cash
> business.
>
> http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Article/3008047/Asset-Management/Will-=
> Governments-Hijack-Corporate-Cash-Stashes?ArticleId=3D3008047&LS=3DEMS64135=
> 3
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>
> I see some similar 2010 and 2011 usages in Google.
>
> DanG
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