We have been over-ambitious, we wanted to do things too well!
Thus doth fate pursue the over-ambitious and wreck their plans.
You think, perhaps, that I 'm employing an over-ambitious phrase, but I am not.
It is the over-ambitious singer, the singer who forces a small, light organ to do heavy work, who develops the tremolo.
But that which he covets comes not to the jealous one, nor power to him who thirsts for it, nor honor to the over-ambitious.
late 14c., from Latin ambitiosus "going around to canvass for office," from ambitio (see ambition). Related: Ambitiously.