In contrast, Ms. Akerman bites off less and chews it more thoroughly.
Then she meets her match: a giant shark who bites off her leg".
A handsome but turgid biopic which bites off more of the old west than it can chew.
He bites off sentences, or lets them trail toward the obvious point, as if to minimize the drama of what he's saying.
In France, if the survivor at the time of death is not a spouse, child or sibling, the tax man bites off a 60 percent chunk.
"Dog Soldiers" (1974), for example, did a frighteningly credible job of portraying another naive American who bites off more menace than he can chew among ruthless sleazebags.
It bites off pieces of fish flesh, which it chews and swallows through an esophagus in the center of its brain.
Much like Ed Harris's noble but unsatisfactory Pollock, Sylvia bites off more than it can chew and is not prepared to do a very good job chewing it.
— Jeff Gordinier The New York Times: Dinner tables have long provided a setting for plays, but "The Big Meal," which just opened Off-Broadway, bites off a lot, using a restaurant repast to sum up the arc of life.
This shows the unmistakable touch of a gifted writer, and "Homegoing" is a specimen of what such a writer can do when she bites off more than she is ready to chew.
Perhaps you have noticed, however, that her full, firm lips press shut in an upward curve, so that her face in repose looks almost smiling — the expression of one who bites off nails with all the amiability in the world.
