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This feature highlights the idiom 「殺雞儆猴」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. A metaphor for using the punishment of one person to warn others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shā jī jǐng hóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saat3 gai1 ging2 hau4
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