《画蛇添足》出自西汉刘向编订的《战国策·齐策二》，记载了一个楚国贵族分酒的小故事：几位门客共饮一壶酒不够分，决定比赛在地上画蛇，先画完的人喝酒。有人先画完，看时间还早，得意地给蛇添上脚炫耀本事，结果还没画完，另一人已经画完蛇，一把夺过酒说"蛇本来就没有脚，你怎么能给它添脚呢"，把酒喝了。这个成语从此用来比喻多此一举、弄巧成拙。

"Drawing a Snake and Adding Feet" comes from Strategies of the Warring States, Qi Ce II, compiled by Liu Xiang during the Han dynasty. It tells of a Chu-state nobleman's retainers who had one jar of wine to share among several people, so they agreed to race — whoever finished drawing a snake on the ground first would get to drink it. One retainer finished first, and seeing he had time to spare, proudly added feet to his snake to show off his skill. But before he could finish, another retainer completed his own snake, snatched the wine away, and said, "A snake never had feet to begin with — how could you add feet to it?" — then drank the wine himself. The idiom has been used ever since to describe doing something unnecessary that ends up ruining an otherwise good result.

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