[VN] to give too much importance to sth:
His role in the negotiations has been overplayed.
OPPUNDERPLAY
IDIOMS
overplay your hand to spoil your chance of success by judging your position to be stronger than it really is
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is overplay a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, overplay is tagged as verb.
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