锦上添花

jǐnshàngtiānhuā

add flowers to the brocade—make what is good still better

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jin3 shang4 tian1 hua1

lit. on brocade, add flowers (idiom); to decorate sth already perfect, gilding the lily

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锦上添花

jǐn shàng tiān huā

add a beautiful thing to a contrasting beautiful thing; add brilliance to one's present splendor; add flowers to embroidery -- superfluous; add flowers to the brocade -- to make perfection still more perfect; add luster to (sth.); add to sth. already beautiful; be blessed with a double portion of good fortune; embroider flowers on brocade; gild refined gold; give an added grace to what is already beautiful; make sth. even better; paint the lily; place embroidery upon silk

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錦上添花|锦上添花 [jǐn shàng tiān huā] ► lit. on brocade, add flowers (idiom); to decorate sth already perfect ► gilding the lily