画蛇添足
画蛇添足
huà shé tiān zú
lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous; to overdo it
idiomverb
Traditional: 畫蛇添足
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- (idiom, verb) lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous
- to overdo it
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Related Words
蛇足(shé zú)· lit. legs on a snake
→抽取(chōu qǔ)· to extract
→一年被蛇咬十年怕井绳(yī nián bèi shé yǎo shí nián pà jǐng shéng)· bitten by a snake in one year, fears the well rope for ten years (idiom); once bitten twice shy
→一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井绳(yī zhāo bèi shé yǎo , shí nián pà jǐng shéng)· once bitten by a snake, ten years in fear of a well rope
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