enrich vs gild the lily

enrich

verb
  • To enhance. 

  • To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize. 

  • To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel. 

  • To adorn, ornate more richly. 

  • To make (someone or something) rich or richer. 

  • To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify. 

  • To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent. 

gild the lily

verb
  • To embellish or improve something unnecessarily. 

  • To add superfluous attributes to something. 

How often have the words enrich and gild the lily occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )