Killing chickens to teach monkeys

Killing chickens to teach monkeys

Killing chicken to teach monkey is an idiom, which means killing chicken to warn monkey. It's like punishing one to warn the others. As an object and attribute, it comes from the third chapter of Gao Yunlan's spring and Autumn Annals of a small city: "Wu Qi always wanted to catch a spy to" kill the chicken and teach the monkey ", but Wu Jian and his family Jianping opposed it. They were afraid that it would cause more internal chaos and future trouble."

Idiom explanation

Pinyin: explanation: kill chickens to warn monkeys. It's like punishing one to warn the others.

Idioms and allusions

Chapter 3 of Gao Yunlan's spring and Autumn Annals of a small city: "Wu Qi always wants to catch a spy to" kill the chicken and teach the monkey ", but Wu Jianhe's family Jianping opposes it. He's afraid that it will make the interior more chaotic and that there will be future trouble."

Discrimination of words

[usage] used as object and attribute