Feed the tiger
It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ NGH ǔ Z ì Ni è, which means to raise a tiger and bite yourself; it means to connive at the enemy and suffer from it. From Luoyang Jialan Ji Jianzhong Temple
Notes on Idioms
Bite: bite.
The origin of Idioms
"Jianzhong Temple" in Luoyang Jialan Ji: "if you raise a tiger to bite yourself, a long Cobra will become a snake."
Idiom usage
To connive at the enemy.
Chinese PinYin : yǎng hǔ zì niè
Feed the tiger
make active preparations for war. mò mǎ lì bīng
the few are no match for the many. sān bù niù liù
follow suit without knowing why. ǎi rén guān cháng
the beam breaking and the rafter falling -- the country being in a stage of ruin. dòng zhé cuī bēng