Gilding the Lilly


to adorn unnecessarily something already beautiful. the expression is a condensation of shakespeare’s metaphor in king john: “to gild refined gold, to paint the lily … is wasteful and ridiculous excess.” i.e., you wouldn’t need to add gold to a beautiful lily.
jennilyn is so beauitful that putting on makeup is just gilding the lilly.

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