overegged

With the nasal Thornburn and raucous Kattner trading vocals and occasionally dark lyrics, some songs strive for drama but sound overegged.

Mister Heavenly: Out of Love – review 2011

"The crowds have been way down they have overegged the pudding."

Is Twenty20 Falling Flat? 2010

It has all the makings of a classic, but the pudding's been so overegged in the press - not to mention ITV's staggeringly dull 'coverage' - that it'll probably be 40-10 to the home side.

The Guardian World News Scott Murray 2011

Although the performances are exaggerated, with too many overegged accents, there is some good work by George Rainsford and Trevor White, and there's an excellent design by

Evening Standard - Home 2011

She adds: It maybe overegged the pudding and maybe it did go too far.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andy Bloxham 2012

She adds: It maybe overegged the pudding and maybe it did go too far.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andy Bloxham 2012

She adds: It maybe overegged the pudding and maybe it did go too far.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Andy Bloxham 2012

That said, IBM's Brian Truskowski rather overegged the pudding by claiming that "security is recession-proof".

iTnews Australia Iain Thomson Shaun Nichols 2009

Bova perhaps thinks this renders his prose more vivid and immediate, but it has exactly the opposite effect, making it sticky and overegged.

Michel Vuijlsteke's weblog 2009

Especially considering that one of the only recognizable - in my case - nods to pre-Strawberry Jam material was an overegged rendition of Leaf House which collapsed under the weight of the gratuitous reverb added to Panda Bear's yodelling vocals and the dubby, slow motion re-reading of the song's original sprightly guitars.

Irish Blogs Asleep on the Compost Heap 2009