Draw a snake to embellish the idiom story.

A large part of idioms are passed down from ancient times and represent a story or allusion. Some idioms are just a miniature sentence. Idiom is a ready-made word, similar to idioms and proverbs, but slightly different. The following are my carefully arranged idiom stories, hoping to help you!

Draw a snake to add liveliness to the story.

The story of gilding the lily took place in the ancient state of Chu. There is a family who sacrifices to their ancestors. After the ceremony, give the rest of the pot of wine to the staff.

More people and less wine make it difficult to deliver. These people discuss how to divide the wine. One person said, "A pot of wine, a few people drink too little. Drink it if you want. It's fun to drink alone! " Everyone thinks so, but no one will give up this right. Another proposal said, "OK, let's have a snake painting competition." Everyone draws a snake on the ground, and whoever finishes drawing first will drink this pot of wine. "Everyone is in favor of this method.

So everyone broke a branch and began to draw. A person draws the fastest, and in the blink of an eye, he draws the snake. Holding the hip flask in his left hand, he looked at his companions proudly, thinking that they were far behind me. He proudly said, "I can finish painting in front of you, just add a few more feet to the snake."

Just as he drew the second foot, another man finished drawing the snake. He grabbed the hip flask and said, "Snakes have no feet. What you drew is not a snake at all. I'd better finish painting first, the wine should be mine. " To gild the lily has nothing to say, so we have to swallow saliva and watch others drink.

The implication of gilding the lily:

Draw a snake, just like a snake; Add feet, and you will become a "four unlike". Everything should be practical and realistic, and we should not show off our cleverness or reinvent the wheel. Otherwise, instead of doing things well, it will make things worse.

Draw a snake to add to the classical Chinese

People who have a shrine in Chu (1) kick their families to drink (2). Mr. Scheeren said, "A few people don't drink enough, and one person drinks too much. Please draw a snake and drink the first one. "

A snake comes first, and drinks wine (4); But with a ten thousand words in his left hand, he drew a snake in his right hand and said, "I can do it." It didn't work. When a person's snake is made, he takes it away and says, "One snake is not enough, but Zi 'an will do." Then drink its wine.

He who makes a snake's foot will die.

-"Warring States Policy"

[Notes]

① Temple (cí)-Spring Festival.

(2) scheeren-the clerk of ancient princes and nobles. (zh ancient vessels for holding wine.

3-stage call-discuss with each other.

4 get the wine-take the glass. Leader, bring it here. And-will.

(5) solid-originally.

⑥ Zi-honorific title for people. Ann.-What?

All landowners so-just.

8 Death loss.

Written usage

Linkage type; Generally used as an object in a sentence; With a derogatory connotation. It is not only useless but also inappropriate to do something superfluous. It is also a metaphor for fictional facts.

Use examples

Tang Hanyu's poem "Changli Collection Volume III Gan Chun": "It is useless to draw a snake, and the temples are white."

Ming Luo Guan Zhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "The general's achievements have been made and his prestige is great, so it can be stopped; Go forward today, if you don't like it, you will have it, just gild the lily. "

Modern Lao She's Four Generations under One Family: "He thinks that money is enough, and there is nothing special about gilding the lily."

Draw a snake and make a sentence.

1. This painting is perfect, so don't gild the lily.

2. The story of gilding the lily comes from the policy of the Warring States.

Let's not do this stupid thing of gilding the lily again.

It was a good thing, but after his description, it turned out to be a bad thing.

A successful speech was defeated by the redundant jokes at the end.

6. In every exam, he always writes a lot of useless words such as gilding the lily, which makes the original concise composition seem cumbersome.

7. He is very wordy. This is not an accident of gilding the lily.

8. This is simply unnecessary.

9, write this sentence more, not only did not enhance expressiveness, but became redundant.

10, which was originally a good thing, turned into a bad thing after his description.

1 1. When writing a composition, you must be careful and appropriate, and you must never embellish it.

12, everyone is wasting time to gild the lily.

13, he thinks it's no big deal to do so. In fact, this is gilding the lily.