overworked

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When Promoter Ingersoll overwound and broke his financial mainspring in the early '20s, Waterbury bought his name and took over marketing of the Ingersoll watch.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fingers remain like coiled springs; the man, too, is tense and overwound.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

My throat feels raw, like I was breathing through my mouth all night, and my heart whirs like an overwound motor on a toy car.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

But, before proceeding to a more serious topic, can you tell me, sir, why a cook's brain-pan is like an overwound clock?

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir