做好做歹 — Chinese idiom
做好做歹
zuò hǎo zuò dǎi
Meaning
- to persuade using all possible arguments ; to act good cop and bad cop in turn
Character by character
- 做zuòto work, to make; to act
- 好hǎogood, excellent, fine; proper, suitable; well
- 做zuòto work, to make; to act
- 歹dǎicorpse; death; evil, depraved, wicked
Idioms sharing a character
- 做张做势 zuò zhāng zuò shì
- 做张做智 zuò zhāng zuò zhì
- 做贼心虚 zuò zéi xīn xū
- 光说不做 guāng shuō bù zuò
- 好吃懒做 hào chī lǎn zuò
- 小题大做 xiǎo tí dà zuò
- 说到做到 shuō dào zuò dào
- 不怀好意 bù huái hǎo yì
- 不知好歹 bù zhī hǎo dǎi
- 不识好歹 bù shí hǎo dǎi
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