a temporary redress
Yitang Wofei, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǐ t ā NGW ò f è I, which means to take boiling water to stop boiling. It means that the wrong way to deal with it can't stop it, on the contrary, it encourages the momentum. From Huainanzi yuandaoxun.
Idiom usage
It refers to the wrong way of handling
Analysis of Idioms
Synonyms: stop boiling with soup, stop boiling with fire
The origin of Idioms
"Huainanzi yuandaoxun" says, "if you use soup to stir up trouble, chaos will be more serious. Therefore, it is the whip that eats the dog and drives the hoof horse. If you want to teach it, you will be able to teach it, though Yi Yin and Zao Fu can be changed. "
Idiom explanation
Soup: boiling water; Wo: pouring; boil: rolling, boiling. Take boiling water to stop the boiling. The wrong way to deal with metaphor can not stop it, on the contrary, it can promote the momentum that has already become.
Chinese PinYin : yǐ tāng wò fèi
a temporary redress
Discard the last and return to the original. qì mò fǎn běn
a heap of musty old books or papers. gù zhǐ duī
jack of all trades and master of none. yī wú suǒ cháng
range upon range of mountains. chóng luán dié yǎn