抱薪救火 bàoxīnjiùhuǒ to make things worse Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 抱薪救火 bàoxīnjiùhuǒ to make things worse literally to carry firewood to put out a fire; to make a problem worse by using a wrong or counterproductive approach. Frequency Written text 0.027 per million Cross-References Synonym 以汤止沸 yǐtāngzhǐfèi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
抱薪救火 bàoxīnjiùhuǒ to make things worse literally to carry firewood to put out a fire; to make a problem worse by using a wrong or counterproductive approach. Frequency Written text 0.027 per million Cross-References Synonym 以汤止沸 yǐtāngzhǐfèi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
