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not know when to stop
verb as in overdo
Strong matches
Example Sentences
“It is shameful they have acted in this way. Leave us alone now. Do the press and other media channels and so called professionals not know when to stop? These are our lives and our children’s lives,” they wrote.
Too many innocent people are losing their lives or having to cope with serious disabilities because someone did not know when to stop drinking or have sense enough to stay out of the driver’s seat when they had too much.
Only he did not know when to stop.
“He lacks what a concerned elementary school principal might call critical faculties, which is a polite way of saying he does not know when to stop,” sniffed the critic Karen Stabiner in our review.
“He lacks what a concerned elementary school principal might call critical faculties, which is a polite way of saying he does not know when to stop,” sniffed the critic Karen Stabiner in our review.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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