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养虎遗患
  1. 比喻縱容壞人留下後患養虎貽患」。 除惡務盡否則養虎遺患後果堪憂」。

Rear a tiger and court disaster. (idiom)​; fig. if you're too lenient with sb, he will damage you later, to cherish a snake in one's bosom