点金成铁
diǎn jīn chéng tiědianjinchengtie
- to transform gold into base metal (idiom); fig. to edit sb else's beautiful prose and ruin it
diǎn jīn chéng tiědianjinchengtie
Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences