点金成铁 — Chinese idiom
点金成铁
diǎn jīn chéng tiě
Traditional: 點金成鐵
Meaning
- to transform gold into base metal ; fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it
Character by character
- 点diǎndot, point, speck
- 金jīngold, metal; money
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 铁tiěiron; strong, solid, firm
Idioms sharing a character
- 指点江山 zhǐ diǎn jiāng shān
- 文不加点 wén bù jiā diǎn
- 煽风点火 shān fēng diǎn huǒ
- 画龙点睛 huà lóng diǎn jīng
- 蜻蜓点水 qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ
- 装点门面 zhuāng diǎn mén miàn
- 点水不漏 diǎn shuǐ bù lòu
- 点睛之笔 diǎn jīng zhī bǐ
- 点石成金 diǎn shí chéng jīn
- 点铁成金 diǎn tiě chéng jīn
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