- to cure ills with poison (TCM)
- to fight evil with evil
- set a thief to catch a thief
- to fight fire with fire
Characters
- 以 (㕥): old variant of 以[yi3]
- 毒 (毒): poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics
- 攻 (攻): to attack; to accuse; to study
- 毒 (毒): poison; to poison; poisonous; malicious; cruel; fierce; narcotics
Resources
- Wiktionary: 以毒攻毒
- MDBG: 以毒攻毒
- Examples with 以毒攻毒 on Tatoeba
Examples
以毒攻毒