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It means don't take on more than you can handle. Don't agree to take on more responsibilities or projects than you are able to attend to.
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If you take a big bite of some food that fills your mouth, you then find it difficult to chew what you have in your mouth to the point that you can swallow it - you mouth is too full.
When used as an expression "you have bitten off more than you can chew" the expression means that you have undertaken to do something that is too big for you to do.
You should have broken the task down into smaller pieces - which gives rise to a related expression "bite sized pieces"
If you take a big bite of some food that fills your mouth, you then find it difficult to chew what you have in your mouth to the point that you can swallow it - you mouth is too full.
When used as an expression "you have bitten off more than you can chew" the expression means that you have undertaken to do something that is too big for you to do.
You should have broken the task down into smaller pieces - which gives rise to a related expression "bite sized pieces".
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