Rebus Redux
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
The below is progressive, top to bottom and left to right.
What's the rebus?
we ourselves
w ourseelves
ouwrselvees
ourselwvese
ourselvews e
ourselves we
HintTwo letters of one of the words in the body went somewhere. Where did they go?
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Answer
Answer: we got ahead of ourselves. The two letters in the word "we"; "w" and "e", advanced to the right toward the head of the word "ourselves", therefore got "ahead" of "ourselves".
"We got ahead of ourselves" is an expression, commonly used, to convey that a discussion or activity had advanced beyond a reasonable limit of control, management, logic, or other necessary supporting resources.
And, sorry, but it isn't "we are beside ourselves" because the rebus body BEGINS with that and progresses AWAY from that before it, again, resuming the progression to end up BESIDE "ourselves" again. So, if one takes that logic-trail toward the answer you would end up with "we are beside ourselves twice" which, to my knowledge anyway, is not only not a common expression, but is hardly a sensible one at all.
Here's an example (in active, first person, voice and tense):
"Hey, folks, we are making a mistake in trying to design the rebus before we even understand a rebus and if we get ahead of ourselves then surely we will "trip up"* on it and "crash and burn"*."
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