推波助瀾

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Chinese

push; refuse (responsibility); shove wave; (Cantonese) ball to help; to assist swelling water
trad. (推波助瀾)
simp. (推波助澜)

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Idiom

推波助瀾

  1. to aggravate an already undesirable situation; to add fuel to the fire