挖肉补疮(wā ròu bǔ chuāng): to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom)
4 charactersTrad. 挖肉補瘡
to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom)
Character breakdown
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Word information
- Pinyin
- wā ròu bǔ chuāng
- Meaning
- to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
- HSK level
- —
- Characters
- 4
- Traditional
- 挖肉補瘡
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