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画蛇添足
huà shé tiān zú
HSK 2.0 Level 6
HSK 3.0 Level 7
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Definitions
- 1. lit. draw legs on a snake (idiom); fig. to ruin the effect by adding sth superfluous
- 2. to overdo it