idiom > to use leniency in meting out punishment
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Leniency
  Explanation: Pleasure: action, disposal. Refers to the punishment lenient, light to let go.
  Source: Ming Li Zhi "and the Friends of Hill Book Week": "If you want Zhong Ni Buweiyishen, Confucian family laws to comply with the gentlemen, must know the lenient sentence, no doubt many of their rehabilitation.
  Examples: Indispensable to joy, to make the pro ~ of. (Qing Zhang Nanzhuang "What Code, 'the second time)
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  【解释】:发落:处分,处置。指处罚从宽,轻予放过。
  【出处】:明·李贽《与周友山书》:“想仲尼不为已甚,诸公遵守孔门家法,决知从宽发落、许其改过自新无疑。”
  【示例】:少不得欢天喜地,把令亲~的。 ◎清·张南庄《何典》第二回
  【用法】:作谓语、宾语;用于处理案件等
成语词典
  成语名称 从轻发落 汉语拼音 cóng qīng fā luò 成语释义 发落:处分,处置。指处罚从宽,轻予放过。 成语出处 明·李贽《与周友山书》:“想仲尼不为已甚,诸公遵守孔门家法,决知从宽发落、许其改过自新无疑。” 使用例句 少不得欢天喜地,把令亲从轻发落的。
  ★清·张南庄《何典》第二回
English Expression
  1. v.:   use leniency in meting out punishment