1 women with disreputable or illegal professions (idiom)
勿谓言之不预
wù wèi yán zhī bù yù
1 (idiom) don't say you haven't been forewarned (threat used by the PRC in international diplomacy)
姑息养奸
gū xī yǎng jiān
1 to tolerate is to nurture an evildoer (idiom); spare the rod and spoil the child
姑置勿论
gū zhì wù lùn
1 to put something aside for the time being (idiom)
妇姑勃溪
fù gū bó xī
1 dispute among womenfolk (idiom); family squabbles
宁左勿右
nìng zuǒ wù yòu
1 (of one's political views) to prefer left rather than right (idiom during the Cultural Revolution)
己所不欲,勿施于人
jǐ suǒ bù yù , wù shī yú rén
1 What you don't want done to you, don't do to others. (idiom, from the Confucian analects)
2 Do as you would be done by.
3 Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you.
推心置腹
tuī xīn zhì fù
1 to give one's bare heart into sb else's keeping (idiom); sb has one's absolute confidence
2 to trust completely
3 to confide in sb with entire sincerity
措置裕如
cuò zhì yù rú
1 to handle easily (idiom); effortless
本末倒置
běn mò dào zhì
1 lit. to invert root and branch (idiom); fig. confusing cause and effect
2 to stress the incidental over the fundamental
3 to put the cart before the horse
欲取姑予
yù qǔ gū yǔ
1 variant of 欲取姑與|欲取姑与[yù qǔ gū yǔ]
2 to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)
欲取姑与
yù qǔ gū yǔ
1 to make concessions for the sake of future gains (idiom)
漠然置之
mò rán zhì zhī
1 to set to one side and ignore (idiom); quite indifferent
2 cold and uncaring
无可置疑
wú kě zhì yí
1 cannot be doubted (idiom)
无容置疑
wú róng zhì yí
1 cannot be doubted (idiom)
置之不问
zhì zhī bù wèn
1 to pass by without showing interest (idiom)
置之不理
zhì zhī bù lǐ
1 to pay no heed to (idiom)
2 to ignore
3 to brush aside
置之死地
zhì zhī sǐ dì
1 to place sb on field of death
2 to confront with mortal danger
3 to give sb no way out
4 with one's back to the wall
5 looking death in the eye
6 part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生
置之死地而后生
zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng
1 place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sūn zǐ Bīng fǎ]); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger
2 fig. to find a way out of an impasse
置若罔闻
zhì ruò wǎng wén
1 to turn a deaf ear to (idiom); to pretend not to hear