除恶务尽 — Chinese idiom
除恶务尽
chú è wù jìn
Traditional: 除惡務盡
Meaning
- to eradicate evil completely ; thorough in rooting out wickedness
Character by character
- 除chúto eliminate, to remove, to wipe out
- 恶èbad, evil, wicked; to hate, to loathe; foul, nause
- 务wùaffairs, business; should; must
- 尽jìnto exhaust, to use up, to deplete
Idioms sharing a character
- 加减乘除 jiā jiǎn chéng chú
- 扫除天下 sǎo chú tiān xià
- 斩草除根 zhǎn cǎo chú gēn
- 为民除害 wèi mín chú hài
- 破除迷信 pò chú mí xìn
- 兴利除弊 xīng lì chú bì
- 药到病除 yào dào bìng chú
- 除暴安良 chú bào ān liáng
- 除旧布新 chú jiù bù xīn
- 除旧更新 chú jiù gēng xīn
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