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gild the lily idiom disapproving to improve or decorate something that is already perfect and therefore spoil it: 画蛇添足,多此一举 Should I add a scarf to this jacket or would it be gilding the lily?穿上这件外套我再配条围巾好吗?不会显得画蛇添足吧? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage ravages seismic sour wreck
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