Save the fire and pay for it

Save the fire and pay for it

Put out the fire and pay, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Ji ù f é NT ó UX ī n, which means to put in firewood to put out the fire. It means to take the wrong way to make the problem more serious. From Deng Xizi Wu Hou.

Notes on Idioms

Burn: fire; pay: firewood.

The origin of Idioms

"Deng Xizi · Wuhou" says: "we should not treat the root cause, but the end. For example, we should save the drowning hammer with stone, and fight the fire with salary."

Idiom usage

The method is not right.