to desecrate something good
Tone colorsmāmámǎmàma
Meanings
1 sense · 5 examplesidiom
to spoil something beautiful or valuable by adding something inferior; to desecrate
derogatoryLiterally "bird droppings on a Buddha's head". Used with a mocking or ironic tone to criticize the defacement or spoiling of something good.
Zài在
zhè这
me么
měi美
de的
gǔ古
huà画
shang上
hú胡
luàn乱
gài盖
zhāng章
，
jiǎn简
zhí直
shì是
fó佛
tóu头
zhuó着
fèn粪
。
Randomly stamping seals on such a beautiful ancient painting is like desecrating it.
Zhè这
běn本
jīng经
diǎn典
zhù著
zuò作
bèi被
tā他
hú胡
luàn乱
píng评
diǎn点
，
pō颇
yǒu有
fó佛
tóu头
zhuó着
fèn粪
zhī之
xián嫌
。
His haphazard annotations on this classic work have the air of spoiling something good.
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Hǎo好
hǎo好
de的
zì自
rán然
jǐng景
guān观
，
jiàn建
le了
nà那
me么
duō多
sú俗
qì气
de的
jiàn建
zhù筑
，
jiǎn简
zhí直
shì是
fó佛
tóu头
zhuó着
fèn粪
。
Building so many tacky structures in a perfectly good natural landscape is an act of desecration.
Tā他
xiū修
gǎi改
hòu后
de的
fāng方
àn案
，
jiǎn简
zhí直
shì是
gěi给
yuán原
zuò作
de的
fó佛
tóu头
zhuó着
fèn粪
。
His revised plan is simply a defacement of the original.
Zhè这
fú幅
míng名
huà画
páng旁
guà挂
le了
yī一
fú幅
cū粗
liè劣
de的
fǎng仿
zhì制
pǐn品
，
zhēn真
shì是
fó佛
tóu头
zhuó着
fèn粪
。
Hanging a crude imitation next to this famous painting is truly like putting bird droppings on a Buddha's head.