gild the lily

[gild the lily] also [paint the lily] {v. phr.}

To add unnecessarily to something already beautiful or good enough.

* /To talk about a beautiful sunset is to gild the lily./

* /For the beautiful girl to use makeup would be to gild the lily./

* /Frank's father is a millionaire, but Frank gilds the lily by saying he is a billionaire./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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