too many irons in the fire

Cultural  

1. To have “too many irons in the fire” is to be engaged in too many activities: “Gomez turned down the consulting job; he felt that he already had too many irons in the fire.”

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Example Sentences

Strike while you’ve got too many irons in the fire.

From The New Yorker

Then again, that would have meant, literally and figuratively, too many irons in the fire.

From Golf Digest

Google has often been accused of having too many irons in the fire.

From The Guardian

After being criticized as having too many irons in the fire and having little focus, it looks like Google is literally getting its act together.

From Washington Post

He had too many irons in the fire, and when the panic came in 1892-3 it crippled him financially, but he gave up his property, the accumulation of a lifetime of struggle and work, to satisfy his creditors, and went manfully to work in the mountains of Washington to regain his lost fortune.

From Project Gutenberg