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畫蛇添足 画蛇添足 Huàshétiānzú ㄏㄨㄚˋㄕㄜˊㄊㄧㄢㄗㄨˊ Lit Draw Legs Snake

Chinese 畫蛇添足
Simplified 画蛇添足
Pinyin huàshétiānzú
Zhuyin ㄏㄨㄚˋㄕㄜˊㄊㄧㄢㄗㄨˊ
English lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous/to overdo it

Tags: hsk-l6, vocabulary

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