报应不爽 — Chinese idiom
报应不爽
bào yìng bù shuǎng
Traditional: 報應不爽
Meaning
- divine retribution is unfailing
- one is inevitably punished for one's misdeeds
Character by character
- 报bàoto announce, to report; newspaper; payback, reveng
- 应yìngshould, must; to respond, to handle; to deal with,
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 爽shuǎngcrisp, refreshing; candid, frank; pleased, happy
Idioms sharing a character
- 以德报怨 yǐ dé bào yuàn
- 以身报国 yǐ shēn bào guó
- 善有善报 shàn yǒu shàn bào
- 报仇雪耻 bào chóu xuě chǐ
- 报仇雪恨 bào chóu xuě hèn
- 报本反始 bào běn fǎn shǐ
- 官报私仇 guān bào sī chóu
- 恩将仇报 ēn jiāng chóu bào
- 恶有恶报 è yǒu è bào
- 感恩图报 gǎn ēn tú bào
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