网开一面
網開一面Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.open the net on one side (idiom); let the caged bird fly
- 2.to give one's opponent a way out
- 3.lenient treatment
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Wiktionary
- 1.to be lenient and magnanimous with wrongdoers
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Etymology
Originally as 網開三面 (“to leave open three sides of the net”)
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Characters
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