fight poison(yǐ dú gōng dú)

fight poison

Fighting poison with poison, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ D ú g ō NGD ú, which refers to the use of toxic drugs to treat diseases caused by poison, and then used in real life. It refers to the use of one bad thing to resist another bad thing. It comes from Tao Zongyi's the record of stopping farming in Ming Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Tao Zongyi of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 29 of the record of stopping farming: "the bone is strong and the rhinoceros is strong, and the snake's horn is also strong. Its nature is extremely poisonous, and it can detoxify and attack poison with poison."

Idiom usage

It's more formal; it's predicate, attributive and object; it's derogatory; it's example; it's fighting poison with poison. On the contrary, it proves that those who oppose vernacular are illiterate and illiterate. Lu Xun's two episodes of qijieting's Essays

Analysis of Idioms

Tit for tat, tooth for tooth, eye for eye

Chinese PinYin : yǐ dú gōng dú