| Good though the matching of crumbly, flaking croissant with hot sticky apples and cold, slightly soured cream is, you may want to gild the lily. |
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| And if you want to gild the lily, a ruby or vintage port, or perhaps a black Muscat dessert wine, makes for a lovely accompaniment. |
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| If you want to gild the lily, scatter over grated cheddar cheese and return to oven until oozy and golden brown. |
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| Depending upon the decorative nature of his work, he may also have known how to gild metals with an amalgam of mercury and gold. |
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| He was certainly a member of the merchant gild by 1385, when he was also renting from the gild a room on the common quay. |
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| A gild dedicated to the Virgin Mary was founded there in the early 15th century. |
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| As for the gild's financial influence, some jurats were indeed occasionally debtors of the gild, but their debts were contracted as gildsmen not as jurats. |
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| The recommendations on alleged respect for workers' rights constitute an attempt to gild the pill and deflate the workers' reactions. |
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| It is likely that the original account was written as an introduction or appendix to the custumal in the Domesday and also to the list of gild ordinances. |
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| They block the pores, isolate the surface and improve the adherence of the gild. |
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| It is not necessary to gild the lily by over ornate presentation. |
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| Make gild the whole then add tomatoes beforehand bald, épépinées and cut in dices, the white wine, the juice of cooking and the thy. |
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| The most workable of metals, gold has been forged, chased, embossed, engraved, inlayed, cast, and in the form of gold leaf used to gild metals, woods, leather, and parchment. |
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| It is, perhaps, too much to hope that he can deny the Spanish a first World Cup, but he can certainly gild his own, anarchic dominion with a final, unfeasible flourish or two. |
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| We disagree with any proposal which is based on the premise of abandoning tobacco production and tries to gild the pill by allegedly seeking alternative forms of employment and income for producers. |
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| As a country, as an economy, we used to assume that the forests and the fish and what we could find in the ground and till from the soil would gild our future forever. |
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| We have no desire to gild what seems to be a rather negative record. |
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| Cook in oil over a slow fire the cut rabbit and gild it slightly. |
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| To gild a surface, many different products can be used: from the common acrylic gilding colour to more specific products such as thin gold, silver or copper leaf. |
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| Frankly, it is not surprising that the ambassador is trying to gild the lily and dampen down concerns that are very real. |
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| Producers Max Martin and Ryan Tedder help gild the lily with beats to bolster the catchy but often anaemic tunes. |
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| Thankfully, the BBC doesn''t, and decided to gild the lily by recruiting Michaela Strachan for the new run. |
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| What is still striking is how much we depend, as investors and commentators, on executives to report accurately the financial conditions of their firms, when those managers have every incentive to gild the lily. |
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| Be careful not to gild the lily with promises that can't be fulfilled. |
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| We gild the lily with our hefty Guilder frame. |
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| But to tell Moschino not to gild the lily? |
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| Just to gild the lily, the wobbling puck hit the far goalpost first. |
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| The almond whipped cream alongside serves to pleasantly gild the lily. |
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| But he is not one to shift blame or gild the lily. |
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| I believe, however, that we should try not to gild the lily by embellishing the Commission's plans with amendments which vest even more power in the new agency. |
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| They gild A dark that would truly scare If there was nothing there The horror of there not being something, good or bad or neither, made or found, willed or self-willed. |
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| If any of the gild misgreet another, let him pay a syster of honey, unless with two friends he can clear himself. |
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| White stains, a product of rainwater from above and vapour from the crowds below, gild the ceiling of Central Lobby, the vast chamber between the lower and upper houses. |
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| Guild, also spelled gild, an association of craftsmen or merchants formed for mutual aid and protection and for the furtherance of their professional interests. |
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| Say so, don't gild the lily, know when you've reached perfection. |
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