🥕 Too Much of a Good Thing: When Overindulgence Goes Overboard 🍦
When Aristotle said moderation was the key to happiness, he probably wasn’t thinking of a chocolate fountain. However, centuries later, the Bard himself eloquently penned, “Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?” in As You Like It. But let’s face it: whether it’s chocolate, sunshine, or fame, there’s such a thing as too much of any good thing. It turns out that more isn’t always better, and that brings us right to today’s idiom: “too much of a good thing.” 🌞🍫🎉
Definitions and Expressions
- Too much of a good thing: An excess of something beneficial can become detrimental.
- To a fault: To an excessive degree; more than is required or healthy.
- Bite off more than you can chew: Attempt to take on a task that is too big for you.
- Pouring it on thick: Exaggerating or overdoing something.
- Kill with kindness: Harm someone’s wellbeing through excessive generosity or attention.
Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms:
- Overindulgence
- Excess
- Surfeit
- Superfluity
- Glut
Antonyms:
- Moderation
- Restraint
- Self-control
- Sufficiency
- Moderateness
Humor and Quotes
“As one does a blowpipe, magnify himself to much—Inflate his fears—Can see least things oblique Just thus the grand-apparent, to his sight, Into his little exotic burst.” — William Blake (frontiersman poet)
“You can’t have too much of a good thing. You can’t have too many hot dogs!”
- Debatable Homer Simpson Opinion 🍩
“When you continually stare at an array of donuts thinking you can healthily consume them all… well, that’s just a Krispy Kreme catastrophe waiting to happen!”
- Anonymous Pasty Philosopher
Related Proverbs, Literature, and Media
Proverbs:
- “The dose makes the poison.”
- “Too much honey will make you sick.”
Suggested Reading:
- Books:
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (a cautionary tale of excessive vanity and hedonism)
- Moderation: A Philosophy by Andrew Fleming (a philosophical take on balance)
Movies:
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) – When the magic of candy can cross the line.
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) – When ambition and greed go way, way overboard.
Poetry:
- “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (highlighting the balance between art, beauty, and excess)
- “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell (exploring the urgency of passion before it becomes too much)
Music:
- “Too Much” by Dave Matthews Band
- “Everything in Moderation” by Kid Koala
Farewell thought: Embrace the goodness of life but remember to balance it, for the shade of too much abundance erodes the delight of even the simplest joys.
—Ida Luvwords —Published on: 2023-10-10
