gild the lily
paint the lily

Anything put into them would be gilding the lily, so to speak.

For me, therefore, going to the European level would be gilding the lily.

And she smiled, understanding that saying more would be gilding the lily.

"Some of them felt it was too much like gilding the lily.

But he is not one to shift blame or gild the lily.

"They've been gilding the lily over at the police station.

No one has ever made gilding the lily pay like Faberge.

Go on - for your Christmas pudding, gild the lily.

Let us not gild the lily; slaves was what we were, Fran thought.

There is no way to gild the lily on this, so guess I won't even try.

"She's got such a beautiful voice to begin with that she doesn't need to gild the lily."

There seems to be a tendency among young hotel chefs these days to gild the lily.

No need to gild the lily with white chocolate.

Provincial people like that never knew when to stop; they could be counted on, so to speak, to try to gild the lily.

But they gild the lily because these works are drawings in themselves, caught halfway between two and three dimensions.

And if that isn't gilding the lily, I don't know what is.

All over the city, big shots are feathering the nest by gilding the lily.

"If they had approved this, it would have been a signal to other developers to come and gild the lily."

Instead of gilding the lily the photographs added atmosphere - a sense of history.

Although the menu choices are wisely limited, too many dishes gild the lily.

And who am I to gild the lily?"

And Hathor was wise enough not to gild the lily.

That's not so bad; why gild the lily?

Talk about gilding the lily, he thought.

"Maybe it's gilding the lily," she said, "but a monogram makes something already luxurious feel even more exclusive."

Though you might think this is painting the lily, the flavors marry perfectly.

This is painting the lily with gilded gold, to be sure, but the results are terrific.

A man camping at this board is painting the lily and gilding fine gold.

The butter just paints the lily, adding an extra flavor dimension.

With Marie Antoinette, such an approach might well paint the lily.

(Its use of the imperial colors red and gold is just painting the lily.)

Look, why don't you lie down for a while while I finish painting the lily?"

To try to give the reader an idea of how thirsty they were, would be to "gild refined gold or paint the lily."

"Even before you paint the lily, you're beautiful.

By popular request, I paint the lily here by adding a sprinkle of white chocolate morsels.

So why paint the lily?

An accompanying dollop of creme fraiche painted the lily.

This business of mispronouncing names was rather a case of painting the lily, and in itself it arouses suspicion."

Of course, the 5's steering was hardly inactive before - it was impeccable - so why paint the lily?

With Central Park as its backyard, the Metropolitan Museum adding a garden might seem like painting the lily.

("I don't care if Shakespeare wrote paint the lily, people say gild the lily.")

"It seemed painting the lily to have the soldiers go out signing 'God Bless America,' " he wrote later.

"We're painting the lily," Idone says.

Beside the curbs stood the colorful carts of the flower venders, unnecessarily painting the lily of existence.

Guess with Jess How Can We Paint the Lily Pad?

Among entrees, a meaty and firm turbot fillet was paired with delicate black bass (painting the lily perhaps) over eggplant puree.

Cooks who like to paint the lily can top each portion with unsweetened whipped cream, or an ice cream, nut or vanilla.

We talk of the folly of painting the lily; but if we saw the lily without warning we should think that it was painted.

--painting the lily."

INSIDE TRACK: Sometimes it pays to paint the lily.