挖肉補瘡

to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient

to dig / to excavate / to scoop out

meat / flesh / pulp (of a fruit) / (coll.) (of a fruit) squashy / (of a person) flabby / irresolute / Kangxi radical 130

to repair / to patch / to mend / to make up for / to fill (a vacancy) / to supplement

sore / skin ulcer