You have listed very specific criteria, and unfortunately, I doubt if there is actually *one single* idiom to describe all of that. One could possibly use a combination. For "doing too much" : >Burn the candle at both ends. >Bite off more than he can chew >Carrying it too far. For "illegal" : >You'll be caught red-handed >Taking the law into his own hands. >Fool's errand For "impossible": >Flogging a dead horse. >Nailing jelly to a wall >Mission impossible I would suggest, if you were to want a sentence expressing all three of your criteria, something like this: >You can't catch lightning in a bottle(impossible), besides, you'd probably be caught red-handed(illegal), and end up trying to burn the candle at both ends(do too much)