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My textbook just introduced the idiom: 画蛇添足, which means "draw a snake and add feet to it." Apparently, this is a phrase to use in formal conversation to describing something done unnecessarily. However, I think it is the funniest thing I've ever heard. I burst out laughing every time I think of it.
Now the other option is: 脱了裤子放屁 which roughly means "take off your pants to fart" and has the same connotation. Of course, this isn't for polite conversation. Yet I find it wholly uninteresting. Having seen nearly every episode of "Family Guy," I have begun desensitized to fart jokes. Yet snake jokes are a laugh riot. Needless to say, I am unable to have polite conversations in China and find vulgar ones uninteresting.
The only solution is to hang up my hat and become a street artist specializing in snakes with feet.
Now the other option is: 脱了裤子放屁 which roughly means "take off your pants to fart" and has the same connotation. Of course, this isn't for polite conversation. Yet I find it wholly uninteresting. Having seen nearly every episode of "Family Guy," I have begun desensitized to fart jokes. Yet snake jokes are a laugh riot. Needless to say, I am unable to have polite conversations in China and find vulgar ones uninteresting.
The only solution is to hang up my hat and become a street artist specializing in snakes with feet.