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Something Our Parents Would Say Don't Bite Off More Than What You Can Chew · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Something our parents would say. My name is Arrow. Don't
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  Speaker 1: bite off more than what you can chew. I've heard
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  Speaker 1: that a few thousand times. It dates all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to the 1800s, where word on the dusty unpaved
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  Speaker 1: streets is that it came from personal experiences. Don't bite
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  Speaker 1: off more than what you can chew, which usually meant
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  Speaker 1: you had too much food in your mouth, or you
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  Speaker 1: were getting too much tobacco in between your cheeks. The
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  Speaker 1: first printed appearance of don't bite off more than what
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  Speaker 1: you can chew was in the From those printed words
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  Speaker 1: came other idioms, such as taking on too much, overestimating
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  Speaker 1: your abilities, or moving faster than your capacity. The reason
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  Speaker 1: why this 200-year-old phrase is still around today is because
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  Speaker 1: we've all experienced having too much to chew. The older
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  Speaker 1: generations around today use don't bite off more than you
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  Speaker 1: can chew when trying to tell people to not make
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  Speaker 1: promises they can't keep. Also, know your limits before stress
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  Speaker 1: takes you out. Now the shocker, hold on tight. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of my pet peeves. I can't stand it when
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  Speaker 1: someone says that. Hold on tight. Hold on tight. They
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  Speaker 1: have changed. We know what don't bite off more than
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  Speaker 1: what you can chew really means. But in today's world,
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  Speaker 1: everything is always go bigger and hustle harder. Always say
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  Speaker 1: yes to everything. You know what's going to happen. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to bite off more than what we can chew.
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  Speaker 1: Something our parents would say. My name is Arrow.