הוֹסִיף נֹפֶךְ מִשֶּׁלּוֹ

ביטוי (אנגלית)

To add something of one's own (to another's words)/ to add a personal touch/ gild the lily

הגדרה (אנגלית)

He added a piece of his own. He beautified and decorated the thing with the addition of his own uniqueness (a garnet, a beautiful stone in a greenish-blue color, turquoise).

("R. Nathan Omer says: The wine that I made with you is not holy, and everything that is holy is the wine that I made with you...and if he adds to it a portion of his own- it is holy" - Kiddushin Mocha 2b, and so: "For the priest, indeed, inclined his ear to listen...and did according to all that he was instructed, and he added a portion of his own" - Shalom Aleichem/ Hamesha And seventy thousand, to him, and so on: "In the hour of distress there was a rashi" and added a touch - and the words were illuminating" - Bialik / Safih 9, and so on: "It was found that a certain person's new grave was written... except that he added a touch of his own to them, and how would he write them on his name?" - Life of his grandmother / As the morning breeze, 100 )