Turn the evil into the right(huí xié rù zhèng)

Turn the evil into the right

He said that he would go back to the right.

Idioms and allusions

[source] Volume II of Three Treatises on Xuanyi in jizang of Sui Dynasty: "hundred treatises is to return evil to right."

Discrimination of words

Synonym: change the evil to the right antonym: obstinate usage: used as predicate and object; refers to being a new man

Chinese PinYin : huí xié rù zhèng