Chinese idioms like 「為蛇添足」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.
Learn about the idiom 「為蛇添足」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It is a metaphor that doing things in a complicated way is not only unhelpful but also harmful. Same as “drawing feet for a snake”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wéi shé tiān zú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wai6/wai4 se4 tim1/tim3 juk1
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