Until then Davies was doing quite well, and he over-reached himself and Patten crushed him with withering disdain.
"Is it dangerous?" He reached behind himself, fumbling under his loose shirt.
Deciding to get serious about his studies, Kirn, "with virtually no stored literary material about which to harbor critical assumptions...[relies on his] gift for mimicking authority figures and playing back to them their own ideas as though they were conclusions...[he'd] reached himself".
Then, in megalomaniac mode, he entirely over-reached himself by deciding that he should run the country.
One cabinet minister said he was over-reaching himself and had become intoxicated with his own publicity, and the Tories said he was holding the country to ransom with his demands for electoral reform.
He has over-reached himself, and the universe will punish him for it by killing him.
In October 1998, nine months after he stepped down as commander-in-chief to take the lifelong senate seat guaranteed to him in his constitution, he almost over-reached himself.
But the dictator's grand ambitions had of course set his nation on a route to defeat and disaster and, in his quieter moments, in the luxurious surroundings of the villa, Mussolini must have gradually begun to realise just how badly he had over-reached himself.
This is usually the dog's favorite spot, because it is one of the only places he can't reach himself, so spend extra time there.
Thoroughly grooming your horse with a curry comb is a good place to start, just make sure to get all those spots that he can't reach himself, like his chest and belly.
