Repaying a grievance with a straight line

Repaying a grievance with a straight line

It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y à zh í B à oyu à n, which means to treat people who resent fairly. It comes from the Analects of Confucius.

The origin of Idioms

In the Analects of Confucius, Xian Wen: "to repay resentment with uprightness, to repay virtue with virtue."

Idiom usage

It refers to the attitude towards people. example it's called repaying one's grievance with one's uprightness and repaying one's virtue with one's virtue. Feng Menglong's a warning to the world in Ming Dynasty (Volume 11)