This is perhaps the most famous piece of diet advice ever given—everything in moderation. Depriving yourself leads to willpower depletion and the dreaded “rebound effect.†Unhealthy foods are only unhealthy if you eat them in excess.
Quote by Mae West: “Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!â€
Too much of a good thing can be Mae West - Forbes Quotes.
What is another word for too much?
| excessive | extreme |
|---|
| inordinate | exorbitant |
| immoderate | extravagant |
| overboard | overkill |
| plethoric | unrestrained |
Excessive amounts of something can have negative effects. I know it's good to get exercise, but he's been working out way too much—he's positively obsessed with going to the gym.
phrase. If you say that something has seen better days, you mean that it is old and in poor condition. The tweed jacket she wore had seen better days.
We use the phrase "wear your heart on your sleeve" in a casual way to say that we are showing our intimate emotions in an honest and open manner. It's likely that the phrase "wear your heart on your sleeve" comes from medieval jousts, where a 'sleeve' referred to a piece of armor which covered and protected the arm.
Word historians suggest that 'dickens' is a euphemism for The Beast, used because it sounds like the once-common alternative of 'devilkins'. The Devil (artist's impression; no photo available). So when you exclaim 'What the Dickens?' , you're really saying 'What the devil?'
—used to say that a person can forget about how unpleasant or difficult something was because everything ended in a good way We almost didn't make it here, but all's well that ends well.
: to disappear completely in a way that is mysterious The papers seem to have vanished into thin air.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations lists this phrase as proverbial and dates it from the late 15th century. Th earliest example that I can find of it in print is from Shakespeare's As You Like It, 1600: ROSALIND: Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? Come, sister, you shall be the priest and marry us.
wù jà bì fǎn. when things reach an extreme, they can only move in the opposite direction (idiom)
2 [countable] American English informal an argument a situation that causes problems for you or that annoys you very much. If it's too much hassle, we can do it another time. Synonyms and related words
phrase. If you catch cold, or catch a cold, you become ill with a cold. Let's dry our hair so we don't catch cold.
DEFINITIONS1. used for saying that someone or something is too bad, good, dangerous etc to do something. He'd never act on his own – he's too much of a coward for that. It was considered too much of a safety risk to transport nuclear fuel by train. Synonyms and related words.
There is no changing something; it's finished or final. For example, I forgot to include my dividend income in my tax return but what's done is done—I've already mailed the form. This expression uses done in the sense of “ended†or “settled,†a usage dating from the first half of the 1400s.
Superfluous comes from the Latin adjective superfluus, meaning literally "running over" or "overflowing." Superfluus, in turn, derives from the combination of the prefix super- (meaning "over" or "more") and fluere, "to flow." (Fluere also gave us fluid, fluent, and influence, among others.)
: an emotionally strong person who gives a lot of support or help during difficult times She's been a/my tower of strength during my illness.
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.†— Mark Twain.
"You can't have too many" is a figure of speech which is usually interpreted the way that your friend did. I use that phrase when I am referring to discrete and desirable things like books, cookies, etc. - basically, there is no such thing as too many cookies so 'can't have too many cookies'.
