挖肉补疮 (wā ròu bǔ chuāng) | Meaning: to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient | Chinese Idiom with Pinyin & Origin

resort to a remedy worse than the ailment · cut out a piece of one's flesh to cure a boil · a makeshift to tide over a present difficulty · rob one's belly to cover one's back剜肉补疮wān ròu bǔ chuāng

impoverished · lacking · deficient · limited · meager · impoverishment · lack · deficiency贫乏pín fá

to be in straitened circumstances左支右绌zuǒ zhī yòu chù

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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