adopt a wrong method to save a situation and end up by making it worse

adopt a wrong method to save a situation and end up by making it worse

Baoxinjiufen, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B à ox à NJI à f é n, which means to eliminate calamities in a wrong way, and the calamities will expand instead. It comes from the biography of Tao Qian in the annals of the Three Kingdoms.

The origin of Idioms

In the biography of Tao Qian, Wei Zhi of the Three Kingdoms, Pei Songzhi quoted Wu Weizhao of the Three Kingdoms as saying, "it's different to save the fire and stop the fire by holding on to one's salary."

Analysis of Idioms

[synonym]: fighting a fire with great efforts

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate, object and attribute.