We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「殺一警百」, explained below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「殺一警百」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Execute one person to warn many. Same as “kill one to warn the hundred.”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shā yī jǐng bǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saat3 yat1 ging2 baak3
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