Then the suspensions of Chief Bender and Rube Oldring blazoned the fact that Manager Mack's splendid system of handling a Base Ball team by moral suasion had fallen down in the face of overconfidence and too much prosperity.

"Oh, you must tell me all about your old home," he said, with an air of overconfidence to conceal his nervousness; "and we must show you about London a bit; it's a tidy little place.

Rashness N. rashness &c adj.; temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity.

He shrewdly foresaw that the very magnitude of what the British had done would lull them into overconfidence and inaction, and would stir the Americans to more determined effort.

And it all came back to him in sickening memory, the flaunting challenge of this man, the fierce struggle, his own overconfidence, and then his crushing defeat.

The last time he missed his cast through overconfidence.

Pride goes before a fall, and overconfidence in his ability to improvise has been the downfall of many a would-be speaker.