釜底抽薪 Save Sign in to save words fǔdǐchōuxīn ㄈㄨˇ ㄉㄧˇ ㄔㄡ ㄒㄧㄣ to take drastic measures to deal with a situation to pull the carpet from under sb Character by character 釜(fǔ)kettle 底(dǐ)bottom 抽(chōu)draw out 薪(xīn)firewood A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0