justice has a long arm
- the net of heaven(literary) the justice of heaven; the punishment of nature for wrongdoing
- reduplicationvast
- ,non-Chinese
- sparse(bound form) sparse; scattered; thin; having wide gaps
- 而 conjunctionbutUsed to connect ideas that contrast or conflict; yet; but; on the other hand
- to not loseTo not lose; to not fail to; to not miss (an opportunity) or depart from (a principle)
justice has long arms
- justice has a long armThe way of heaven is vast and fair, and the guilty will eventually be punished; criminals cannot escape the law. This idiom is often followed by 疏而不漏 .
- ,non-Chinese
- sparse(bound form) sparse; scattered; thin; having wide gaps
- 而 conjunctionbutUsed to connect ideas that contrast or conflict; yet; but; on the other hand
- 不 adverbnotNegative adverb used before verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs to indicate negation; also used as a bound-form prefix to form terms with opposite meanings
- 失 verbto missto miss; to let slip; to fail to seize something like an opportunity or chance