Nagy fába vágta a fejszéjét.
“He struck his axe into too large a tree.”
He took on a task far beyond what he was actually capable of handling.
— Traditional Hungary Wisdom, Hungary
Source: Traditional Hungary proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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