29 collocations for overdid

Claude de Chauxville usually overdid things.

In these cases you will find that Eve has little or no interest in pleasing Adam; or that she overdoes the matter of trying to please, and frequently dissolves in tears and precipitates countless reproaches upon luckless Adam.

'Don't overdo it, 'Arry, and at the same time don't underdo it, as you might say.'

At times, however, she overdid her business.

I did all I could when I first saw that she was overdoing the champagne.

We shall still be ourselves, and there is no danger that we shall overdo discipline or make organization a thing to be worshipped for its own sake.

We all have; but there's such a thing as overdoing this duty to the firm.

I felt his pulse, and decided that he was really becoming fatigued, and that it would be wiser not to overdo the exercise while he was so weak.

On the other hand, you can overdo the game by playing continuously; and if you have been playing all through the summer with scarcely a break, it is a good plan to rest during the winter months, taking up some other game to keep your eye in and your condition fit.

This was the Boab's account, but I think he has overdone the harshness and injustice of the Mohammedan law of marriage in relating it to our tourists.

But in my opinion they're overdoing the hate.

" "What are you talking about?" asked Sylvia, perhaps slightly overdoing her ignorance of his meaning.

So good-night, old dagger and jewels; see you again, but don't overdo your limited importance.

Then, like most reformers, she overdid itwent and had twins.

You're rather overdoing the simple life, Monsieur erPhilidor.

There is little fear of overdoing the mortification of the flesh.

To be sure, it is just possible to overdo the number of catfish in one tank.

Many players make the cardinal mistake of playing day after day in the same way; they starve all their weak strokes and overdo all their best ones; in fact, they play in precisely the same manner as if the occasion were an important match.

But this was too much for Zarahe was overdoing the partand she turned and flashed upon him a glance of resentment and contempt.

Mrs. Bute Crawley, the rector's wife, was a smart little lady, domestic, politic, but apt to overdo her "policy."

Yes, sir, 'Dn you.'" There was something so unutterably vile in the reverend gentleman's utterance and emphasis of this oath that the two men, albeit both easy and facile blasphemers, felt shocked; as the purest of actresses is apt to overdo the rakishness of a gay Lothario, Father Wynn's immaculate conception of an imprecation was something terrible.

We must be moderate, my child, moderate: I hate overdoing anythingespecially religion.

This analysis of Ibsen's practice points to the factfor such I believe it to bethat what the modern playwright has chiefly to guard against is the temptation to overdo suicide as a means of cutting the dramatic knot.

"Worth," she asked, grotesquely overdoing unconcern, "where's Miss Ann?

He got up and told me I was overdoing this waking up act on the animals.

29 collocations for  overdid