火上浇油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu to pour oil on the fire Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 火上浇油 火上澆油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu to pour oil on the fire verb To aggravate a situation or enrage people and make matters worse; figuratively, to make a bad situation even more intense. 社交媒体火上浇油。 shèjiāoméitǐ huǒshàngjiāoyóu. Social media fuels the fire. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.623 per million Cross-References Same as 火上加油 huǒshàngjiāyóu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
火上浇油 火上澆油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu to pour oil on the fire verb To aggravate a situation or enrage people and make matters worse; figuratively, to make a bad situation even more intense. 社交媒体火上浇油。 shèjiāoméitǐ huǒshàngjiāoyóu. Social media fuels the fire. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.623 per million Cross-References Same as 火上加油 huǒshàngjiāyóu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
