虧

deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...

thanks to / luckily

fortunately / luckily

to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately

lit. to ruin the enterprise for the sake of one basketful / to fail through lack of a final effort / to spoil the ship for a ha'penny worth of tar (idiom)

profit and loss / waxing and waning

in the wrong

to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering

luckily / fortunately

to make good a deficit / to reverse a loss

to get into the black; to become profitable

hidden loss (finance)

waning moon / to wane

(to be guilty of) dereliction of duty

He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.

He who never wrongs others does not fear the knock in the night. / Rest with a clear conscience.

(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly

to be taken advantage of

pent-up unspoken grievances / suffering not willingly or possibly spoken of

a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)