Killing chickens and monkeys(shā jī chī hóu)

Killing chickens and monkeys

The Chinese idiom is sh ā J ī ch ī h ó u, which means to punish one person to intimidate or warn others.

[idiom]: kill a chicken to wheeze a monkey [Pinyin]: SH ā J ī ch ī h ó u [simplified spelling]: sjch [explanation]: it refers to punishing one person to intimidate or warn others. It's the same as "killing chickens to scare monkeys".

Chinese PinYin : shā jī chī hóu