make amends for previous faults by some good services

make amends for previous faults by some good services

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ì g ō NGB ǔ guॸ, which means to test a person's achievements to make up for his mistakes. It comes from the Han Dynasty, emperor yuan.

Notes on Idioms

Plan: examination; loss: fault.

The origin of Idioms

In the Han Dynasty, XunYue's "Han Ji, Yuan Di Ji", it is said that "Qi Heng made great contributions to Kuang Zhou first, and then made up for his crimes

Analysis of Idioms

Make up for one's mistakes

Idiom usage

To make up for one's fault by examining one's merits.