推波助澜 tuībōzhùlán to add fuel to the fire Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 推波助澜 推波助瀾 tuībōzhùlán to add fuel to the fire (idiom) to push the waves and add to the billows, meaning to encourage something to get bigger or to fan the flames of an existing situation; often used in a negative sense to describe making a bad situation worse Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.01 per million Cross-References Synonym 火上加油 huǒshàngjiāyóu纵风止燎 zòngfēngzhǐliáo Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
推波助澜 推波助瀾 tuībōzhùlán to add fuel to the fire (idiom) to push the waves and add to the billows, meaning to encourage something to get bigger or to fan the flames of an existing situation; often used in a negative sense to describe making a bad situation worse Frequency Movie subtitles 0.360 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 2.01 per million Cross-References Synonym 火上加油 huǒshàngjiāyóu纵风止燎 zòngfēngzhǐliáo Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
