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laid on with a trowel
vs
overelaborate
laid on with a trowel
overelaborate
adj
Excessively elaborate.
verb
To elaborate excessively; to go into too much detail.
How often have the words
laid on with a trowel
and
overelaborate
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)