you try to do more than you are able to do
Thanks for offering to cook a lunch, but don't bite off more than you can chew.
I have bitten off more than I can chew by taking on this extra job.
I will never finish this project on time, I have bitten off more than I can chew.
There is no origin for this idiom
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Common phrase that has a specific meaning.