严惩不贷 — Chinese idiom
严惩不贷
yán chéng bù dài
Traditional: 嚴懲不貸
Meaning
- to punish severely
Character by character
- 严yánstrict, rigorous, rigid; stern
- 惩chéngto discipline, to punish, to reprimand, to warn
- 不bùno, not, un-; negative prefix
- 贷dàito borrow; to lend; to pardon
Idioms sharing a character
- 严以律己 yán yǐ lǜ jǐ
- 严丝合缝 yán sī hé fèng
- 义正辞严 yì zhèng cí yán
- 劝善惩恶 quàn shàn chéng è
- 小惩大诫 xiǎo chéng dà jiè
- 惩一儆百 chéng yī jǐng bǎi
- 惩前毖后 chéng qián bì hòu
- 惩恶扬善 chéng è yáng shàn
- 一丁不识 yī dīng bù shí
- 一尘不染 yī chén bù rǎn
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