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画蛇添足

Word

to add something that is not needed and make things worse

Traditional
畫蛇添足

huà shé tiān zú

hua4she2tian1zu2HSK 7–9

Meaning

  1. to add something that is not needed and make things worse
  2. to do too much and make a good thing bad

Examples

  • 你再说下去就是画蛇添足了。

    nǐ zài shuō xià qù jiù shì huà shé tiān zú le

    If you keep talking, you will only make it worse.

    AI-generated sentence

  • 再加东西就画蛇添足了。

    zài jiā dōng xi jiù huà shé tiān zú le

    Adding more things will not make it better.

    AI-generated sentence

Characters in 画蛇添足

画huà蛇shé添tiān足zú
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