add fuel to the flames

add fuel to the flames

Pour oil on the fire, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Hu à sh à ngji à oy ó u, meaning pour oil on the fire, metaphor makes people more angry or make the situation more serious. From the golden thread pool.

The origin of Idioms

The second discount of yuan · Guan Hanqing's golden thread pool: "I saw him pour oil on Deng's fire.

Idiom usage

Subject predicate type; as predicate and object; metaphor to expand the situation intentionally. Example: the second fold of Chen Zhou Tan Mi written by Wu Ming Shi in Yuan Dynasty: "I've never been inferior to a square head, just like pouring oil on a fire. I prefer to have a good relationship with the powerful officials." Shi Naian's outlaws of the marsh (63rd chapter): Qin Ming is also an impatient man. After hearing this, he just adds charcoal to the furnace, adds fuel to the fire, pats his horse forward, and swings the wolf's tooth stick straight to the future; Shi Yukun's three heroes and five righteousness (41st chapter): if you take this medicine and misuse ginseng, it's like adding fuel to the fire. In less than seven days, you have to die inconstantly. Li Baojia of the Qing Dynasty wrote for the first time: "Wang Ren heard this; he added fuel to the fire; he came to fight with a board." In this way, everyone's mood is like adding fuel to the fire.