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n. Something enjoyable or beneficial which, nevertheless, becomes bothersome or harmful in large quantities or over an extended period of time.
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"Too Much of a Good Thing" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Alan Jackson. It was released in June 2004 as the lead-off single from his album What I Do. It peaked at number 5 on the United States Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, and number 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Too Much of a Good Thing is a radio play, recorded entirely on location, as if it were a film, by Mike Leigh. Liane Aukin, the 'midwife' of the project, a BBC radio producer, knew Leigh through her brother David, the general manager at Hampstead Theatre. She had initially asked Leigh to revive Abigail's Party on the radio, but he preferred to supply an original piece. Ronald Mason, the head of radio drama, was enthusiastic and allocated £5000.
Leigh rehearsed the play for three weeks with the three actors - Lesley Manville, Philip Davis and Eric Allan. In the fourth week they went out and 'shot' the radio play as if it were a film. It was completed in May 1979. Ronald Mason was pleased with the result, but Ian McIntyre, controller of Radio 3, censored the broadcast, claiming the play was 'boring' and 'not good enough'. The play was finally broadcast in July 1992.
The critic Michael Coveney has described the radio play as "probably the least-known example of Leigh's best work, a script of unremitting black and greasy grottiness." A fat girl, Pamela, (Lesley Manville), who works in an estate agents and lives with her equally fat, widowed father, Mr Payne (Eric Allan), in Barking, east London, loses her virginity to her driving instructor, Graham (Phil Davis). "Above all it's the realism that is so startling, the actors really are in situ, and not skilfully turning pages in front of a microphone..the fifteen minute seduction scene was done, for almost absolute real, with Manville and Davis stripping down naked by night in an Islington bedroom wired for sound, and Leigh lurking outside with his sound recordists in the van...Manville recalls that the foreplay was enacted, on the take, right up to the moment of penetration, when it was decided that Davis would grab a little cushion which he placed between the two of them so he could, as Manville says, 'do the thrusting and carry on'."
Usage examples of "too much of a good thing".
There were some that shook their heads and thought this was too much of a good thing.
But we mortals find too much of a good thing a little overwhelming.
I like a little blood, a little pain, but this wound was deep and fresh and a little too much of a good thing.
Her breasts--only her big rib cage could carry such large ones without appearing too much of a good thing, they jutted firmly out and moved only a trifle when she moved, and they were crowned with rosy brown confections that were frankly nipples, womanly and not virginal.
And in spite of minor panic from the rents about the dangers inherent in too much of a good thing, the inevitable counterbalance of teenage angst insured that the system didnt spiral up and out of control.