以毒攻毒

to cure ills with poison (TCM) / to fight evil with evil / set a thief to catch a thief / to fight fire with fire

Characters and words in 以毒攻毒

old variant of 以[yi3]
old variant of 以[yi3]

= + : Mnemonic symbol: 㠯 looks like a cool pair of safety goggles.

A ghost (尸) has been hiding from Maud Younger (Ø3) in a mandarin (口). Maud finds the mandarin in the space station's living room (Ø3) and squeezes the ghost out, and in order to (㠯) be protected from the mandarin juice flying all around in zero gravity she is wearing safety goggles (㠯).
abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]
to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

= + : So this is Neanderthal Man with a fake nose. He has bushy eyebrows, so my symbol for 以 is going to be one of these fake noses that come with additional glasses, eyebrows, and a moustache: Groucho glasses.

= + : Maud Younger and Neanderthal Man prepared some costumes for Halloween in the space station. Neanderthal Man created a big fake nose, while Maud Younger made a pair of Groucho glasses.
poison / to poison / poisonous / malicious / cruel / fierce / narcotics

= + : Sometimes even Gaia (母) is one of the bad guys. Just inside the entrance of the space station (Ø2) she gives a poisoned apple (毒) to Doggy Dog (du) wearing a fancy headdress (龶).
to attack / to accuse / to study

= + : In front of the engine, Gitta Giraffe attacks a steel beam using a sledge hammer. Who will win???

Words with 以毒攻毒

以毒攻毒 is not used as a component in another word.

Sentences with 以毒攻毒

以毒攻毒 currently does not appear in any sentence.