| 短语 | gild the lily |
| 释义 | gild the lily to spoil something by trying to improve it when it is already good enough画蛇添足，弄巧成拙 gild the lily try to improve what is already beautiful or excellent 锦上添花。 [ORIGIN: misquotation, from 'To gild refined gold, to paint the lily; to throw perfume on the violet, ... is wasteful, and ridiculous excess'（Shakespeare's King John vi ii. 11.）.] gild the ˈlilyto spoil sth that is already good or beautiful by trying to improve it画蛇添足；多此一举 |
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