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We’re presenting the idiom 「殺雞嚇猴」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed 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 xià hóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saat3 gai1 haak3 hau4
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