锦上添花

锦上添花 [jǐn shàng tiān huā]

1. ■ add a beautiful thing to a contrasting beautiful thing; add brilliance to one's present splendor; add flowers to embroidery -- superfluous; add flowers to the brocade -- to make perfection still more perfect; add luster to (sth.); add to sth. already beautiful; be blessed with a double portion of good fortune; embroider flowers on brocade; gild refined gold; give an added grace to what is already beautiful; make sth. even better; paint the lily; place embroidery upon silk