火上浇油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu aggravate Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 火上浇油 (火上澆油) huǒshàngjiāoyóu aggravate expression To pour oil on the fire; to make a bad situation worse or to further enrage people. 他在这种时候说这种话，简直是火上浇油。 tā zài zhè zhǒng shíhou shuō zhè zhǒng huà, jiǎnzhí shì huǒshàngjiāoyóu. Saying such things at a time like this is just adding fuel to the fire. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.623 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
火上浇油 (火上澆油) huǒshàngjiāoyóu aggravate expression To pour oil on the fire; to make a bad situation worse or to further enrage people. 他在这种时候说这种话，简直是火上浇油。 tā zài zhè zhǒng shíhou shuō zhè zhǒng huà, jiǎnzhí shì huǒshàngjiāoyóu. Saying such things at a time like this is just adding fuel to the fire. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.623 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
