Chinese–English

点金成铁

diǎn jīn chéng tiě · dian jin cheng tie

Traditional 點金成鐵

Meaning

CC-CEDICT
  1. to transform gold into base metal (idiom); fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it
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