idiom > yielding to force but rejecting soft approach
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Hard not to eat soft food
  Explanation: Good words do not listen to good words, attitude and a tough, anti to succumb to the. Describe the person's weak, bully.
  Source: Qing Li Baojia "Bureaucrats" Seventeenth back: "Dai Dali asked, his words, saying that Hu command of the man, hard not to eat soft food.
chī yìng bù chī ruǎn
  Hard to say no, hard to solve the problem down
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English Expression
  1. n.:  yielding to force but rejecting soft approach