| | (idiom) to make matters even worse / to add insult to injury | HSK 7-9 |
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| | trying to hide it makes it more conspicuous (idiom); A cover up only makes matters worse. | |
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| | lit. drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst (idiom) / fig. a supposed remedy that only makes matters worse | |
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| | worse than a dog or pig / lower than low | |
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| | good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse | |
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| | (military) (of a city etc) to fall into enemy hands / (fig.) to take a turn for the worse | |
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| | downcast; gloomy / to decline; to get worse | |
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| | relative superiority (better or worse, stronger or weaker, above or below etc) | |
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| | lit. military tactics on paper (idiom) / fig. theoretical discussion that is worse than useless in practice / armchair strategist / idle theorizing / cf Zhao Kuo 趙括｜赵括 leading an army of 400,000 to total annihilation at battle of Changping 長平之戰｜长平之战 in 260 BC | |
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| | to get worse / to degenerate | |
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| | to have a change of weather (esp. for the worse) / (fig.) to experience a major upheaval; to undergo sweeping change | |
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| | not to be inferior in any aspects (idiom) / to surpass / to outdo / (derog.) to be even worse | |
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| | to pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse | |
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| | worse than a beast / to behave immorally | |
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| | lit. much thunder but little rain; fig. a lot of talk but little action / his bark is worse than his bite | |
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| | to be getting worse with each generation | |
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| | to increase without letup / to get worse and worse (idiom) | |
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| | lit. try to straighten out silk threads only to tangle them further (idiom) / fig. to try to help but end up making things worse | |
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| | shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse | |
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| | 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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| | rivers pour away by the day (idiom); going from bad to worse / deteriorating day by day | |
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| | lit. to carry firewood to put out a fire (idiom); fig. to make a problem worse by inappropriate action | |
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| | to change (for the worse) | |
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| | poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back | |
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| | lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn | |
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| | to be born with a weak constitution and suffer from ill health during one's life / (fig.) to be problematic from the start, and get even worse over time | |
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| | to be intensifying / to be getting worse and worse / to start to run rampant | |
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| | much worse than having something stolen is when a thief has you in his sights (idiom) | |
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| | to make people feel even more stressed or annoyed (coll.) / to make traffic congestion even worse | |
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| | to be getting worse by the day | |
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| | lit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom) / fig. people who are in it together for better or worse / people who will sink or swim together | |
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| | add firewood to put out the flames (idiom); fig. ill-advised action that only makes the problem worse / to add fuel to the fire | |
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| | To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom); for better or for worse | |
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| | To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom); for better or for worse | |
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| | to compare two unsatisfactory things / to argue that others have similar or worse faults (as a response to criticism) / whataboutery | |
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| | to add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation / to enrage people and make matters worse | |
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| | lit. the more you touch things up, the darker they get / fig. to only make matters worse | |
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