Make unnecessary additions to what is already complete.
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Examples for "gild the lily "
Examples for "gild the lily "
1 When the controversy was settled Miss Alice slipped off to gild the lily .
2 He isn't great enough for that, though; in the way of perfection you successfully gild the lily .
3 Why, as it were, gild the lily ?
4 Instead, Level-5 chose to gild the lily .
5 To gild the lily , roll the finished bites in shredded unsweetened coconut, finely ground nuts, or cocoa.
1 Who ever managed to paint the lily with complimentary words or gild refined gold with fancy phrases?
2 One knows that, and so the imagination is awake, ready to paint the lily and to gild the beaten gold.
3 I don't know why their interest should have prompted me to go on and paint the lily a little, but I certainly did so.
4 To try to give the reader an idea of how thirsty they were, would be to "gild refined gold or paint the lily . "
5 A man camping at this board is painting the lily and gilding fine gold.
6 Surely the common prejudice against painting the lily can but be based on mere ground of economy.
7 "I am not one of those who paint the lily . "
8 I can remember when divines were never tired of painting the lily , of indulging in the most glowing descriptions of the Elysian Fields.
9 We talk of the folly of painting the lily ; but if we saw the lily without warning we should think that it was painted.
10 Praising the strawberry is like " painting the lily ; " therefore let us give our attention at once to the essential details of its successful culture.
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This collocation consists of: Translations for paint the lily