煽风点火
shān​fēng​diǎn​huǒ

to fan the flames

  • created sense approved 煽风点火/煽風點火 · shān​fēng​diǎn​huǒ · to fan the flames — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    煽风点火 / 煽風點火

    shān​fēng​diǎn​huǒ

    to fan the flames

    (idiom) to stir up trouble; to incite people to do something bad; to encourage a conflict from the sidelines to make a situation worse

    煽 (literal) → 煽 · shān · to fan 风 (literal) → 风/風 · fēng · wind 点 (literal) → 点/點 · diǎn · to light 火 (literal) → 火 · huǒ · fire

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense