Read Edit View history 养痈遗患 yǎngyōngyíhuàn to foster evil and invite disaster Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 养痈遗患 養癰遺患 yǎngyōngyíhuàn to foster evil and invite disaster To tolerate or ignore a small problem or evil person rather than dealing with it early, leading to a much greater disaster later; literally "to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity" Frequency Written text 0.013 per million Cross-References Same as 养痈成患 yǎngyōngchénghuànSynonym 养虎遗患 yǎnghǔyíhuànAntonym 杜渐防微 dùjiànfángwēi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
养痈遗患 養癰遺患 yǎngyōngyíhuàn to foster evil and invite disaster To tolerate or ignore a small problem or evil person rather than dealing with it early, leading to a much greater disaster later; literally "to foster an ulcer and bequeath a calamity" Frequency Written text 0.013 per million Cross-References Same as 养痈成患 yǎngyōngchénghuànSynonym 养虎遗患 yǎnghǔyíhuànAntonym 杜渐防微 dùjiànfángwēi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)