gold-plating
镀金,鍍金,镶金,插金
Definitions
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- : the incorporation of costly and unnecessary features or refinements into a product or structure.
- : any expensive nonessential item, convenience, or feature: an apartment with a sauna and other gold-plating.
Examples
In straight relationships with an age gap, words like ‘gold-digger’ and ‘trophy wife’ get thrown around.
And more than anything, I wanted a souvenir for my father, so I rolled him back, and he had gold teeth.
He headed west in 1860 for health reasons and to join the gold rush in Colorado.
As far as finally being acknowledged herself with that elusive Academy gold, well, Moore says she would not take it for granted.
While panning for gold, he made himself a large hat from the hides he had collected on his trip.
When she arrived she made a regular entry into the city in a coach all gold and glass, drawn by eight superb plumed horses.
On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
A leather swordbelt, gold-embroidered at the edges, carried a long steel-halted rapier in a leather scabbard chaped with steel.
M was a Miser, and hoarded up gold; N was a Nobleman, gallant and bold.
He accuses the latter of various illegal and crafty acts, among them sending contraband gold and jewels to Mexico.