Significados de paint the lily em inglês

Who ever managed to paint the lily with complimentary words or gild refined gold with fancy phrases?

One knows that, and so the imagination is awake, ready to paint the lily and to gild the beaten gold.

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.

To try to give the reader an idea of how thirsty they were, would be to "gild refined gold or paint the lily."

A man camping at this board is painting the lily and gilding fine gold.

Surely the common prejudice against painting the lily can but be based on mere ground of economy.

"I am not one of those who paint the lily."

I can remember when divines were never tired of painting the lily, of indulging in the most glowing descriptions of the Elysian Fields.

We talk of the folly of painting the lily; but if we saw the lily without warning we should think that it was painted.

Praising the strawberry is like " painting the lily;" therefore let us give our attention at once to the essential details of its successful culture.