饮鸩止渴
Traditional form:
飲鴆止渴
Pinyin (reading):
yǐnzhènzhǐkě
Definitions:
- lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom)
- fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse
Characters:
- 饮 - to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink
- 鸩 - a bird resembling the secretary falcon
- 止 - to stop, to halt; to detain; to desist
- 渴 - thirsty, parched; to yearn, to pine for
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