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English Expression: Too much of a good thing
It’s hard to believe, but it’s true.
You can have too much of a good thing.
This expression means you enjoy a positive thing so much that it becomes damaging.
A novel thing you enjoy and look forward to can become tedious and unpleasant if you enjoy it too much.
Let’s take doughnuts as an example.
Most people enjoy a donut or two once in a while, but what happens if you enjoy too many donuts?
If you start to enjoy too many donuts, you begin to expand in unwanted ways.
it’s a textbook example of why you should enjoy everything in moderation.
Believe me, you don’t want to look fat.
Too many donuts are bad for your health (not to mention your figure); thus, too much of a good thing.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 81.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
