挖肉补疮 — Chinese idiom
挖肉补疮
wā ròu bǔ chuāng
Traditional: 挖肉補瘡
Meaning
- to cut one's flesh to cover a sore ; faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
Character by character
- 挖wāto dig, to excavate
- 肉ròumeat; flesh
- 补bǔto fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 疮chuāngboil, tumor; wound, sore
Idioms sharing a character
- 挖空心思 wā kōng xīn si
- 弱肉强食 ruò ròu qiáng shí
- 心惊肉跳 xīn jīng ròu tiào
- 情同骨肉 qíng tóng gǔ ròu
- 情逾骨肉 qíng yú gǔ ròu
- 生死肉骨 shēng sǐ ròu gǔ
- 皮开肉绽 pí kāi ròu zhàn
- 细皮嫩肉 xì pí nèn ròu
- 肉眼凡胎 ròu yǎn fán tāi
- 自相鱼肉 zì xiāng yú ròu
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