止渴 zhǐ kě

zhǐ kě phrase quench thirst
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '止渴'; Mathews 1931 '止渴', p. 131)

Contained in

• 饮鸩止渴(飲鴆止渴) drinking poison in the hope of quenching one's thirst
• 望梅止渴 to quench one's thirst by thinking of plums; to console oneself with illusions
• 充饥止渴(充飢止渴) to allay one's hunger and slake one's thirst

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