Gild the Lily 1100 Words
Gild the Lily 1100 Words
/gɪld – ðiː -ˈlɪl.i/ (idiom)
to spoil the quality of something by trying to make it better while it’s good enough, praise someone extravagantly, to decorate something which is already beautiful, get carried away, overdo it, go too far, over-egg the pudding, go over the top:
The Gilded Lily – from the Shakespearean expression, “to gild the lily” meaning to adorn something which is already beautiful. I believe in the inherent beauty of ALL woman so the addition of jewelry only enhances that which is already lovely. So buy something that pleases your eye and brings you joy, knowing that you are already beautiful!
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The cliché “gild the lily” is a misquotation of a line from Shakespeare: “To gild refined gold, to paint the lily…is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” Correctly quoted or not, this common phrase refers to the unnecessary practice of embellishing something which doesn’t need embellishing.
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Farsi: بیش از حد به چیزی پرداختن
French: Trop à faire
Urdu: بہت کچھ کرنا ہے