挖肉补疮 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 挖肉補瘡 wāròubǔchuāng ㄨㄚ ㄖㄡˋ ㄅㄨˇ ㄔㄨㄤ to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom) faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient Character by character 挖(wā)dig 肉(ròu)meat 补(bǔ)repair 疮(chuāng)sore A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0