quench fire with fire—make a matter worse ? 你去勸架時為什么還翻舊帳？這不是～么？ Why did you bring up old scores when you went to make peace between the quarrelling parties? Wasn’t it like quenching fire with fire?
以火救火yi huo jiu huo
try to extinguish fire with fire—a wrong method of handling affairs
以火救火yǐ huǒ jiù huǒ
用火來救火災(zāi)，不僅不能制止，反而助長其勢。比喻解決問題的方法不對頭，只能起到助長其趨勢的作用。put oil on the fire, make a matter worse, fight fire with fire