← HSK 6 vocabulary
HSK 6

画蛇添足

畫蛇添足

huà shé tiān zú

Meaning

  1. lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous
  2. to overdo it
Traditional
畫蛇添足
Pinyin
huà shé tiān zú