eyes bigger than your stomach

眼大肚子小；眼高手低

Eyes是眼睛；bigger是更大的意思。眼睛比肚子更大，那不正好和中國的俗語“眼大肚子小”一模一樣嗎？明明已經吃不了還一味的死撐，那就是眼大肚子小。不過英語的這句習慣用語除了有眼大肚子小的含義以外，更有了延伸的意義。舉例來說。查里本來已經開了兩家餐館了，他還貪心要開再開一個新店。看看他的結果吧.

例句: It turned out that Charlie’s eyes were bigger than his stomach; he ended up working much longer hours, seven days a week, but losing money with his new place and had to close it down after a year of trying.

到頭來查里眼高手低，結果是不但一個星期工作七天，每天的工作時間更長。新店反倒賠錢。于是，在試過一年以后，最后只好關門大吉.