剜肉补疮 wānròubǔchuāng to resort to a remedy worse than the disease or rob Peter to pay Paul Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 剜肉补疮 剜肉補瘡 wānròubǔchuāng to resort to a remedy worse than the disease or rob Peter to pay Paul To cut out a piece of healthy flesh to patch a sore; describes using a harmful makeshift solution to solve an urgent problem without considering the consequences. Frequency Written text 0.009 per million Cross-References Synonym 剜肉医疮 wānròuyīchuāng饮鸩止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkěVariant of 挖肉补疮 wāròubǔchuāng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
剜肉补疮 剜肉補瘡 wānròubǔchuāng to resort to a remedy worse than the disease or rob Peter to pay Paul To cut out a piece of healthy flesh to patch a sore; describes using a harmful makeshift solution to solve an urgent problem without considering the consequences. Frequency Written text 0.009 per million Cross-References Synonym 剜肉医疮 wānròuyīchuāng饮鸩止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkěVariant of 挖肉补疮 wāròubǔchuāng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
