Read Edit View history 抱薪救火 bàoxīnjiùhuǒ to make things worse Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 抱薪救火 bàoxīnjiùhuǒ to make things worse literally to carry firewood to put out a fire; to make a problem worse by using a wrong or counterproductive approach. Frequency Written text 0.027 per million Cross-References Synonym 以汤止沸 yǐtāngzhǐfèi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)
抱薪救火 bàoxīnjiùhuǒ to make things worse literally to carry firewood to put out a fire; to make a problem worse by using a wrong or counterproductive approach. Frequency Written text 0.027 per million Cross-References Synonym 以汤止沸 yǐtāngzhǐfèi Sources Frequency data BCC Corpus (BLCU)