对症下药 (比喻针对具体情况决定解决问题的办法) apply medicine according to indications -- an antidote against the disease; find specific ways (to solve problems); it is an adequate remedy for the disease.; prescribe a medicine special for the disease; prescribe the right remedy for an illness; suit one's methods to the situation; suit the remedy to the case [disease]: 做思想工作必须对症下药。 in doing ideological work, one must suit one's methods to the situation