"Overreach yourself" nghĩa là gì?

Đừng cố uống quá sức mình. Photo courtesy Bryan Campbell.

'Overreach yourself' nghĩa là thất bại vì làm việc quá sức mình, thất bại vì quá hăm hở (try to do more than is possible, try to be too clever, go too far, overdo it, bite off more than you can chew, be hoist with your own petard, have too many irons in the fire, defeat your own ends = have your schemes backfire or boomerang or rebound on you).

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Swimming in cold water is tiring so do not overreach yourself.

Clubs have got to realise when they have reached their level because if you try to overreach yourself financially then it can end in tears (kết thúc trong nước mắt).

By all means do something dramatic and decisive today but make sure you know what you are doing because the planets warn that you could easily overreach yourself. Remember, people in positions of power didn’t get there by being weak.

Not until Napoleon succumbed to the temptation to enter territories where local resources were insufficient for the support of a huge army—Spain and Russia—would he face defeat, first by overreaching himself, above all in Russia in 1812, and then as the rest of Europe united against him in a belated vindication of Westphalian principles.

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