挖肉补疮
Traditional form:
挖肉補瘡
Pinyin (reading):
wāròubǔchuāng
Definitions:
- to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
Characters:
- 挖 - to dig, to excavate
- 肉 - meat; flesh
- 补 - to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- 疮 - boil, tumor; wound, sore
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