Sentence examples for overplaying the hand from inspiring English sources

Back in May, when Gov. Bruce Rauner said he'd endure a government shutdown if the Legislature refused to pass his reform agenda, I wrote that I believed Rauner was overplaying the hand voters dealt him in the election.

But just because the Austrians are in a hurry, I'm not going to see them saddled with a bad treaty". So this quiet, low-key American from Colorado hung in, often to the unease of his British and French counterparts--and of John Foster Dulles, who at one crucial point, was afraid that Thompson might be overplaying the hand.

The risk for Democrats would be overplaying the accountability hand.

"We overplayed the Christmas hand a bit last year," he said.

The luck that fell to Mr. Holt fell to all Democrats when the Republicans overplayed the impeachment hand.

(Ruff doesn't overplay the dissociation hand, but Andrew always refers to "Andy Gage," "the body," "the stepfather". The person who might have protected everyone, however, is "our mother").

And so it's to Hustvedt's credit that she doesn't overplay the romantic hand, conceding that a happy ending is all in how you look at it.

The Republicans have, once again, overplayed the political hand they were dealt.

Senior executives at competing networks warned that NBC could be overplaying its hand; the current edition of "The Voice" ends Dec. 18.

Unless the U.S. government stops overplaying its hand in the home theater soon, Washington's elites, including the media, are going to be in for a rude disappointment.

Nonetheless, by overplaying his hand, the man who teased James Murdoch for being a mafia boss has given his enemies a gigantic gift.