杀一儆百
shā​yī​jǐng​bǎi

warn others

杀一儆百 (殺一儆百) shā​yī​jǐng​bǎi
warn others idiom
to punish an individual as an example to deter others from committing similar offenses

Frequency
Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.209 per million

Cross-References

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Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)