Feed the tiger
It is a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is y ǎ NGH ǔ Z ì Ni è, which means to raise a tiger and bite yourself; it means to connive at the enemy and suffer from it. From Luoyang Jialan Ji Jianzhong Temple
Notes on Idioms
Bite: bite.
The origin of Idioms
"Jianzhong Temple" in Luoyang Jialan Ji: "if you raise a tiger to bite yourself, a long Cobra will become a snake."
Idiom usage
To connive at the enemy.
Feed the tiger
Take advantage of public opinion - chéng yú bō yuè
a clever talk becomes a good joke - miào yǔ jiě yí