挖肉補瘡 [ㄨㄚ ㄖㄡˋ ㄅㄨˇ ㄔㄨㄤ; wa1 rou4 bu3 chuang1] to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient ◄ ►