Resist the wolf and advance the tiger
As a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ù L á NGJ ì NH ǔ, which means one harm has just gone, and then another. It comes from the Fu of reading history.
Analysis of Idioms
Resisting the tiger and the wolf
The origin of Idioms
Lu Zhiyi's Fu on reading history: "it's not a good plan to resist the wolf and advance the tiger, and to subjugate the country and save the husband."
Idiom usage
It means that the measures are not effective.
Chinese PinYin : jù láng jìn hǔ
Resist the wolf and advance the tiger
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