秋后算账

lit. to settle accounts after autumn (idiom) / fig. to settle scores at an opportune time

empress / queen / (archaic) monarch / ruler

back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-

to regard as / to figure / to calculate / to compute

account / bill / debt / CL:本[ben3],筆|笔[bi3]

autumn / fall / harvest time

old variant of 秋[qiu1]

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

(accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts / (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge