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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「以水救水」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
The more water is brought in to relieve the flood, the more severe the water will become. The metaphor not only fails to stop it, but on the contrary encourages it.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ shuǐ jiù shuǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 seui2 gau3 seui2
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