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gild the lily, to add unnecessary ornamentation, a special feature, etc., in an attempt to improve something that is already complete, satisfactory, or ideal: After that wonderful meal, serving a fancy dessert would be gilding the lily. ... Origin of gild the ...
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Gild the lily - the meaning and origin of this phrase. ... The term 'paint the lily' was used in the 20th century, with the same meaning we now apply to 'gild the lily'. Clearly, this is the correct quotation. The two versions coexisted for a time, although 'paint the lily' is now hardly ever used.
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In Reply to: Gild the Lily, rose petals and rocket-propelled grenades posted by Bruce Kahl on May 21, 2004 ... : : I think it has a Biblical origin - certainly lilies are referred to there asd examples of natural beauty.
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READER PHIL MCGEE of Westford recently went looking for the origin of ''gilding the lily," he e-mailed earlier this month, and he was surprised by what he unearthed in Shakespeare. ''To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... ... The abbreviated form ''gild the lily" has been in circulation for some 200 years,
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To gild the lily is one of my favorite phrases but its origin was borne of a mistake in a newspaper article in the Newark Daily Advocate in 1895 when it was misquoted from William Shakespeare's King John. Read more about the history and meaning behind the famous phrase.
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ChaCha has the answer to this question: What does gild the lily mean Answer: Gild the lily means to apply unnecessary ornament - to over embelli... ...MORE... ... Gild the lily means to apply unnecessary ornament - to over embellish. Origin gild the lily is from Shakespeare's King John,1595 ... gilding the lily origin...
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"Gild the lily" is from Shakespeare's "King John". It means to apply unnecessary ornament, or to over-embellish. ChaCha on! ... Description: To apply unnecessary ornament - to over embellish. Origin gild the lilyFrom Shakespeare's King John, 1595: SALISBURY:
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"To gild the lily" means "to adorn or embellish something that is already beautiful or perfect; to attempt to improve something that cannot be improved, and thereby to risk spoiling it through excess" (or, in a more mundane ... Yes, modern dictionaries are no fun at all, full of dull downers like "origin unknown" and,
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My dictionary says that the origin of ‘nincompoop’ is unknown. Can you tell me anything else about it? ... This idiomatic phrase is traceable to Shakespeare's play‘King John,’ produced in 1597, which includes the lines,‘To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,/To throw a perfume on the violet,/....
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