画蛇添足 | Pandaist

huà shé tiān zú

画

蛇

添

足

Traditional

畫

虵

添

足

Part of Speech

set phrase

Definitionlit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous/to overdo it

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