还账 (還賬)
huán zhàng
Pinyin
Definition
还账 (還賬)
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- to settle and account
Character Decomposition
Idioms (15)
以其人之道,还治其人之身
- 1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
以眼还眼
- 1 an eye for an eye (idiom); fig. to use the enemy's methods against him
- 2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
以眼还眼,以牙还牙
- 1 an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom)
- 2 fig. to use the enemy's methods against him
- 3 to give sb a taste of his own medicine
借尸还魂
- 1 lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom); fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise
八字还没一撇
- 1 lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八 (idiom)
- 2 fig. things have not even begun to take shape
- 3 no sign of success yet