extinguish a fire with oil(pō yóu jiù huǒ)

extinguish a fire with oil

Pour oil to put out a fire, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ō y ó Uji ù Hu ǒ, which means to pour oil on a fire; it means that things are not handled properly, but make things worse. From the romance of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

Chapter 74 of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "to make him a pioneer today is to pour oil on fire."

Analysis of Idioms

Put out a fire

Idiom usage

It refers to the fact that things are not handled properly, which makes the situation more serious. It's just "spilling oil to put out the fire". I'm afraid he'll die unhappily. The 85th chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : pō yóu jiù huǒ