以毒攻毒 (yǐ dú gōng dú) — to fight poison with poison; to use the opponent's own methods against them; to set a thief to catch a thief
Definition
Literally 'use poison to attack poison.' Originally a TCM method of curing a toxin with another toxin, now used figuratively to mean countering an evil with the same kind of evil.
idiom
to fight poison with poisonto use the opponent's own methods against themto set a thief to catch a thief
Examples
- ，以毒攻毒。Miàn duì wǎng luò gōng jī, tā men cǎi qǔ le yǐ dú gōng dú de cè lüè.Facing the cyber attack, they adopted a fight-fire-with-fire strategy.
- 。Zhōng yī yǒu shí huì yòng yǐ dú gōng dú de fāng fǎ zhì liáo yí nán zá zhèng.Traditional Chinese medicine sometimes uses the method of fighting poison with poison to treat difficult diseases.
- 、以毒攻毒。Zhè bù diàn yǐng jiǎng de shì yǐ bào zhì bào, yǐ dú gōng dú de gù shi.This movie tells a story of fighting violence with violence and poison with poison.
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