put out a fire and shake the boiling

put out a fire and shake the boiling

Jiuhuoyangfei is a Chinese idiom pronounced Ji ù Hu ǒ y á NGF è I. The original intention is to put out the fire with great efforts and stop the boiling. It means that the way to solve problems is improper and it doesn't solve problems fundamentally. He also described the situation as critical.

Idiom explanation

Boiling: boiling water. The original intention is to put out the fire with great efforts and stop the boiling. It refers to the improper way of solving problems, not fundamentally solving problems. He also described the situation as critical.

Idioms and allusions

The idiom comes from Sima Qian's preface to the biographies of cruel officials in historical records in the Western Han Dynasty: "at that time, if the administration of officials were to save the fire, it would not be martial health."

Discrimination of words

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