以儆效尤 yǐjǐngxiàoyóu to warn against following bad examples Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 以儆效尤 yǐjǐngxiàoyóu to warn against following bad examples (idiom) to punish someone for their wrongdoing as a way to warn others against following their example Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.151 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
以儆效尤 yǐjǐngxiàoyóu to warn against following bad examples (idiom) to punish someone for their wrongdoing as a way to warn others against following their example Frequency Movie subtitles 0.180 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.151 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)