以毒攻毒 yǐdúgōngdú combating evil Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 以毒攻毒 yǐdúgōngdú combating evil verb to combat a harmful person or situation by using the same methods or another evil force; to fight fire with fire medical idiom to use poisonous substances as a medical cure for diseases caused by toxins or similar ailments in Traditional Chinese Medicine Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.367 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
以毒攻毒 yǐdúgōngdú combating evil verb to combat a harmful person or situation by using the same methods or another evil force; to fight fire with fire medical idiom to use poisonous substances as a medical cure for diseases caused by toxins or similar ailments in Traditional Chinese Medicine Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.367 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
