execute one as a warning to others

execute one as a warning to others

Kill one hundred, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is sh ā y ī L ì B ǎ I, meaning to kill a person, in order to warn many people. It comes from the biography of Su Chuo in the book of Zhou.

Idiom usage

To act as an object or attributive

Analysis of Idioms

Close synonym: kill one to warn a hundred, kill one to make a hundred

The origin of Idioms

Su chuozhuan, the book of Zhou Dynasty: "if there are people who are treacherous, cunning, immoral, rebellious, unfaithful and unfilial, they are deviant from the Tao. They can kill one and make a hundred profits, turn them into the king of Qing Dynasty, and punish them severely."