halt flood with water make a matter worse ? 是以火救火，～，名之曰： “益多”。(《莊子·人間世》) It is like quenching fire with fire,or halting flood with water,which means “all the worse”.
以水救水yǐ shuǐ jiù shuǐ
用水來(lái)救水災(zāi)。不僅不能制止，反而使災(zāi)難擴(kuò)大。put oil on the fire, make a thing worse