Fire fighting

Fire fighting

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is p ī m á Ji ù Hu ǒ, meaning to put out a fire with hemp. It is a metaphor for self inflicted disaster. It's from Kuai Tong.

The origin of Idioms

The third discount of Yuan Wu Ming Shi's "earning Kuai Tong" is: "you are like fighting a fire, Kuai Che is not like that kind of person falling with the wind."

Analysis of Idioms

Fire fighting

Idiom usage

It is used as predicate and attributive

Examples

If you force your troops to fight a fire, you will burn yourself. The 120th chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty