Sayings on Smoothing Over

各打五十大板 Give each side fifty strokes. To punish both sides equally, without deciding who is right.

和稀泥 Stir thin mud. To smooth over a dispute, usually without regard to principle.

息事宁人 End the matter and calm the people. To settle a dispute and restore peace.

大事化小,小事化了 Turn big problems into small ones, and small problems into nothing.

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