Read Edit View history 火上浇油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu to pour oil on the fire Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 火上浇油 火上澆油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu to pour oil on the fire verb To aggravate a situation or enrage people and make matters worse; figuratively, to make a bad situation even more intense. 社交媒体火上浇油。 shèjiāoméitǐ huǒshàngjiāoyóu. Social media fuels the fire. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.623 per million Cross-References Same as 火上加油 huǒshàngjiāyóu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
火上浇油 火上澆油 huǒshàngjiāoyóu to pour oil on the fire verb To aggravate a situation or enrage people and make matters worse; figuratively, to make a bad situation even more intense. 社交媒体火上浇油。 shèjiāoméitǐ huǒshàngjiāoyóu. Social media fuels the fire. Frequency Movie subtitles 1.16 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.623 per million Cross-References Same as 火上加油 huǒshàngjiāyóu Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)