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bridge too far

n. (context idiomatic English) A step or action that is too ambitious; an act of overreaching.

Usage examples of "bridge too far".

He might have been able to take Hattusas, but that would have been one bridge too far.

These people had argued that a democracy was too sweeping a change, too hard, something Iraq had never had, a bridge too far.