Kill a chicken in front of a monkey – 杀鸡给猴看

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杀鸡给猴看
[殺雞給猴看]
shā jī gěi hóu kàn
to kill a chicken in front of a monkey

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Thanks again to Raymond (Wordsummit) for the suggesting this one.

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Variants:

杀鸡儆猴 [殺雞儆猴] / shā jī jǐng hóu
杀鸡吓猴 [殺雞嚇猴] / shā jī xià hóu
杀鸡警猴 [殺雞警猴] / shā jī jǐng hóu

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→ Idioms Index → Idioms Links

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I put together some links for this one, to see how long it takes. Bit too much to do it for each idiom, unfortunately, even as cursorily as I did here. Maybe I’ll add just one or two links for each one to serve as a reminder that there exists lots more information.

Links:

⇒ en.wiktionary
⇒ chinese-tools.com: chengyu dictionary
⇒ Bright Hub Education: Ten Chinese Idioms to learn
⇒ teachmechinese: Chinese idioms involving goats and monkey
⇒ studychineseinchina
⇒ International Language Centre (Hong Kong)
⇒ youtube search

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