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paying back in installments (instalments); amortization plan (amortisation); gradual demolition; gradual erosion; gradual dismantlement

people look friendly when they ask for a loan but not so much when they repay it; (lit.) when borrowing (the money), the face of the (bodhisattva) Kshitigarbha; when returning it, the face of the (hell king) Yama