以毒攻毒 yǐdúgōngdú to cure ills with poison Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 以毒攻毒 yǐdúgōngdú to cure ills with poison to use poisonous drugs to treat diseases such as skin ulcers or toxins in traditional Chinese medicine to fight fire with fire to counter an evil person or harsh methods with equally ruthless means; to set a thief to catch a thief Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.367 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
以毒攻毒 yǐdúgōngdú to cure ills with poison to use poisonous drugs to treat diseases such as skin ulcers or toxins in traditional Chinese medicine to fight fire with fire to counter an evil person or harsh methods with equally ruthless means; to set a thief to catch a thief Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.367 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
