feel not disgraceful in looking down and up -- having a clear conscience
Chinese idiom, Pinyin is f ǔ y ǎ NGW ú Ku ì, which means you are not ashamed if you have not done something bad. It's from Mencius with all his heart.
The origin of Idioms
"Mencius heart up": "up worthy of the sky, down worthy of the people."
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: a clear conscience; antonym: a guilty conscience
Idiom usage
If it is not a wise man who has a clear conscience, he is a liar who has no sense of shame. Guo Moruo's a sequel to the decade of creation
feel not disgraceful in looking down and up -- having a clear conscience
one 's hair is grayishly white at the temples - liǎng bìn rú shuāng
use a corpse to resurrect a dead soul - jiè shī huán yáng
do a discreditable thing secretly - àn shì sī xīn
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a couple who live from hand to mouth - chái mǐ fū qī