VERB
- make unnecessary additions to what is already complete
- adorn unnecessarily (something that is already beautiful)
How To Use gild the lily In A Sentence
- Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily.
- For the beautiful girl to use makeup would be to gild the lily.
- We don't so much gild the lily as crumple the lily in our fist, stuff it in the back pocket of our jeans and replace it with a functional precast concrete structure that we can grow a hedge in front of. Why we must savour the rare English delicacy that is Jack Wilshere
- Before I tell you what I'm referring to when I say "my gilded cage in the Philippines", I need to tell you exactly what "gild" and the phrases "gilded cage" and "gild the lily" mean. Untwisted Vortex
