Chinese–English
画蛇添足
huà shé tiān zú · hua she tian zu
Traditional 畫蛇添足
Meaning
CC-CEDICT- lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous
- to overdo it
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