Usually means: Reduce attractiveness or spoil something.
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  1. take the gilt off the gingerbread: Collins English Dictionary
  2. take the gilt off the gingerbread: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. take the gilt off the gingerbread: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (take the gilt off the gingerbread)

verb:  (idiomatic) To take away the most attractive or appealing qualities of something; to destroy an illusion.

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