idiom > give quarter
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Leniency pleasure
  Explanation: Pleasure: punishment and treatment. Refers to the punishment lenient, light to let go.
  Usage: Partial official; as predicate; with compliment, that leniency
  Source: Ming Li Zhi "and the Friends of Hill Book Week": "think for himself even Zhong Ni, gentlemen follow Confucian family laws, must know lenient leniently, Xu is no doubt of their rehabilitation."
  Examples: Cai-law to ask the public daily, and then said that two years Gleditsia Lin Renshou things that pile, I ~. ★ Qing Chu who was "Orientation of" back to the fourteenth
No. 2
  从宽发落
  发音: cóng kuān fā luò
  释义: 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。”
  事例:蔡公先问罗公起居,然后说到就是仁寿二年皂角林那桩事,我也~。 ★清·褚人获《隋唐演义》第十四回
English Expression
  1. n.:  give quarter
Thesaurus
let bygones be bygones, lenity, Extrajudicial Ren, Fawai favor, past not censure