adopt a wrong method to save a situation and end up by making it worse
Baoxinjiufen, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B à ox à NJI à f é n, which means to eliminate calamities in a wrong way, and the calamities will expand instead. It comes from the biography of Tao Qian in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.
The origin of Idioms
In the biography of Tao Qian, Wei Zhi of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi quoted Wu Weizhao of the Three Kingdoms as saying, "it's different to save the fire and stop the fire by holding on to one's salary."
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: fighting a fire with great efforts
Idiom usage
It can be used as predicate, object and attribute.
Chinese PinYin : bào xīn jiù fén
adopt a wrong method to save a situation and end up by making it worse
talk cheerfully and humorously. tán yì fēng shēng
Water can carry or capsize a boat. shuǐ kě zài zhōu,yì kě fù zhōu
sometimes an inch may prove long. cùn yǒu suǒ cháng
Zhonghe lost his boat, a pot of gold. zhōng hé shī zhō,yī hú qiān jīn
My heart is as pure as water.. chén xīn rú shuǐ