adding the trimmings

adding the trimmings

Adding oil and vinegar is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is ti ā NY ó Uji ā C ù, which refers to adding something that was not originally added in order to exaggerate or attract other people's attention when narrating things or reporting other people's words. From the bloody sword gate pass.

Analysis of Idioms

It is appropriate and realistic

The origin of Idioms

Qu Xingdong's "bloody battle at Jianmen pass": "we, as signalmen, often turn around the chief and add oil and vinegar to each other's stories."

Idiom usage

It refers to exaggeration. You should be practical and realistic in your speech.