饮鸩止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkě the remedy is worse than the disease Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 饮鸩止渴 飲鴆止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkě the remedy is worse than the disease lit. drinking poison to quench one's thirst; used to describe taking a desperate, harmful measure to solve a temporary problem without regard for the disastrous consequences Frequency Written text 0.269 per million Cross-References See 止渴饮鸩 zhǐkěyǐnzhènVariant of 饮酖止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkěSynonym 挖肉补疮 wāròubǔchuāng剜肉补疮 wānròubǔchuāng剜肉医疮 wānròuyīchuāng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
饮鸩止渴 飲鴆止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkě the remedy is worse than the disease lit. drinking poison to quench one's thirst; used to describe taking a desperate, harmful measure to solve a temporary problem without regard for the disastrous consequences Frequency Written text 0.269 per million Cross-References See 止渴饮鸩 zhǐkěyǐnzhènVariant of 饮酖止渴 yǐnzhènzhǐkěSynonym 挖肉补疮 wāròubǔchuāng剜肉补疮 wānròubǔchuāng剜肉医疮 wānròuyīchuāng Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
