too many irons in the fire
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.”
Nearby words
too close for comfort, too close to call, too good to be true, too little, too late, too many cooks spoil the broth, too many irons in the fire, too much of a good thing, too-too, toodle-oo, tooele, took
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