1 Don't gild the lily.

2 Some people add a little brandy to the recipe but I feel this is gilding the lily.

3 The dress is perfect. Don't add anything to it at all. It would just be gilding the lily.

4 Should I add a scarf to this jacket or would it be gilding the lily?

5 To dress up humour would be the ultimate in gilding the lily.

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

7 Comment on this would be to gild the lily.

8 Don't gild the lily,[] gild the sissy.

9 To talk about the beautiful sunset is to gild the lily.

10 With Dimitar Berbatov and Wayne Rooney primed to flower anew, Owen can gild the lily.

11 For the beautiful girl to use makeup would be to gild the lily.

12 For such a beautiful girl, to use make - up would be to gild the lily.