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挖肉補瘡 (waat3 juk6 bou2 cong1) — meaning, pronunciation, examples

挖肉補瘡 (waat3 juk6 bou2 cong1, wā ròu bǔ chuāng) — to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient

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beyond HSK

Related words

• 挖 (waat3) — to persuade one to switch employment; to dig; to excavate; to scoop out; to scr…
• 挖肉攞瘡生 (waat3 juk6 lo2 cong1 sang1) — asking for trouble
• 挖 (waa1) — to dig; to excavate; to scoop out; to scratch with fingernails
• 挖土機 (waat3 tou2 gei1) — excavator; backhoe
• 挖掉 (waat3 diu6) — to dig out; to eradicate
• 挖掘 (waat3 gwat6) — to excavate; (lit and fig.) to unearth; to dig into

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