Hannibal Buress

I think people overplay the 'Saturday Night Live' schedule. I mean, yeah, it can be some late hours. But the late hours are usually only one or two nights out of the week. You might have a crazy six-day week, but you'll work three weeks, and then you get a week off work. I'd take most jobs if it was hard work and then I got a week off.

American Comedian

Andrew Strauss

I don't want to overplay the diary's significance, but it's a really helpful batting aid. It's not an obsession because I don't spend more than 10 or 20 minutes writing a day - and not necessarily every day. I might write in it three days in a row and then not the next four. It depends on the situation.

English Athlete

Dennis Miller

Liberals should not overplay this weapons of mass destruction card, because you want me to tell you the truth? Most of us are not going to care if they don't find these weapons of mass destruction. It's enough for a lot of us to see those kids smiling on that street again.

Daniel Negreanu

Many players in the big blind get in trouble by calling pre-flop raises; they try to do too much. They don't want to get bullied, so they attempt a tricky check-raise bluff or overplay their hands in an ill-advised effort to push back.

Canadian Celebrity

Vinnie Paul

A lot of young drummers have a tendency to really overplay. Sometimes simple is better, and the notes that aren't played between the spaces are bigger than the notes that are.

American Musician

Euny Hong

You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.

American Journalist

Jack Reynor

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

Irish Actor

Wyck Godfrey

Sometimes people get in position where they get in a big movie and overplay their hand. What that huge check does is put a target on an actor's back.

American Producer

John Cho

Typically, actors overplay jargon or toss it away in an extravagant display of casualness. Real people hit the important parts hard.

American Actor

Caroline Garcia

You have to play your best but you can't overplay.

French Tennis Player

Overplay can suggest someone is pretending or is not genuine, often used negatively.

Emotional Intensity

Used in performance contexts to criticize an actor for excessive dramatization.

Dramatic Effect

More common in spoken English; may be too informal for academic or professional writing.

Avoid in Formal Writing

Primarily used in card games to describe poor strategy due to an inflated sense of a hand's value.

Gambling Context

Implies a lack of caution or misjudgment of risk, leading to potential losses.

Risk Awareness

Signifies a strategic mistake common in competitive situations.

Strategy Error

 and prays to the high priest of grit. But sometimes, that leads us to keep going when we should stop to think again. Experiments show that gritty people are more likely to overplay their hands in casino games and more likely to keep trying to solve impossible puzzles.

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 situations they don't control so once you take up skydiving or smoking you downplay the risks if a risk is thrust upon you terrorism is a good example you'll overplay it because you don't feel like it's in your control there are a bunch of other of these biases these

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Emotional Intensity

Dramatic Effect

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