Results for “还”

to settle and account

(Korean term) women who returned to Korea after being abducted during the Manchu invasions of Korea in the 17th century, only to be regarded as defiled and therefore ostracized, even by their own families

to come back to life (after death)

to redeem a vow (to a deity) / to fulfill a promise / votive

recycled paper

(idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold

to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhū Xī]) / to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game / to give sb a taste of his own medicine

an eye for an eye (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine

an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth (idiom) / fig. to use the enemy's methods against him / to give sb a taste of his own medicine

lit. reincarnated in sb else's body (idiom) / fig. a discarded or discredited idea returns in another guise

lit. not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] has been written (idiom) / fig. things have not even gotten started yet / nothing tangible has come of one's plans yet

lit. there is not even the first stroke of the character 八[bā] (idiom) / fig. things have not even begun to take shape / no sign of success yet

if you live a life of crime, sooner or later you'll pay for it

(idiom) to retire from official service due to old age and return to one's hometown

to return

see 有借有還，再借不難|有借有还，再借不难[yǒu jiè yǒu huán , zài jiè bù nán]

the best part of the show is yet to come / (with ironic tone) the worst is yet to come / you ain't seen nothin' yet

friend or foe? (quote from 沙家浜[Shā jiā bāng]) (蔣|蒋[Jiǎng] here refers to Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石[Jiǎng Jiè shí] and 汪[Wāng] refers to Wang Jingwei 汪精衛|汪精卫[Wāng Jīng wèi])

to contact / to have dealings (with sb)

lit. when one beats a dog, one must answer to its master (idiom) / fig. before punishing sb, one should consider how that would affect others associated with him

please return (an item sent in the mail)

to release (a hostage) / to put back in place

return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)

lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task

return (a borrowed object) with thanks / decline (a gift) with thanks

survivor

ginger gets spicier as it gets older (idiom) / the older, the wiser

A debt of blood must be paid in blood. / Blood calls for blood.

lit. to come back to one's hometown in silken robes (idiom) / fig. to return home after making good / Taiwan pr. [yì jǐn huán xiāng]

lit. whoever hung the bell on the tiger's neck must untie it (idiom) / fig. whoever started the trouble should end it

to ask for sth back / to recover

to buy a wooden box and return the pearls inside / to show poor judgment (idiom)

to recover one's youthful vigor / to feel rejuvenated (idiom)

to recover (lost property or money) / to win back

restoring agricultural land to forest

How dare you! / This is an outrage! / Absolutely disgraceful!

that goes without saying

(literary) to return to one's native place

variant of 解鈴還須繫鈴人|解铃还须系铃人[jiě líng hái xū xì líng rén]