كيف تنطق "gild the lily"

expression

GILD-thuh-LIL-ee

gild-thuh-LIL-ee

التعريف

To unnecessarily add decorations or improvements to something that is already beautiful or perfect, making it worse or excessive instead of better.

الإنجليزية الأمريكية

ˈɡɪɫd/ /ˈðə/, /ðə/, /ði/ /ˈɫɪɫi

الإنجليزية البريطانية

ɡˈɪld/ /ðə, ði/ /lˈɪli

أمريكي

GILD-thuh-LIL-ee

بريطاني

gild-thuh-LIL-ee

Don't gild the lily—the cake looks perfect already.

Adding more colors to the design would gild the lily.

She tried to gild the lily by putting extra bows on the gift.

If you keep editing your essay, you'll just gild the lily and risk ruining it.