"teach someone a lesson" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-teach someone a lesson.ogg [Australia] Forms: teaches someone a lesson [present, singular, third-person], teaching someone a lesson [participle, present], taught someone a lesson [participle, past], taught someone a lesson [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|teach<,,taught> someone a lesson}} teach someone a lesson (third-person singular simple present teaches someone a lesson, present participle teaching someone a lesson, simple past and past participle taught someone a lesson)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To punish someone for something bad that they have done so that they do not do it again. Tags: idiomatic, informal Synonyms: fix someone's wagon Related terms: show someone who's boss Translations (punish (informal)): 給...點兒顏色看 (Chinese Mandarin), 给...点儿颜色看 (gěi...diǎnr yánsè kàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 教训 (jiàoxùn) (Chinese Mandarin), antaa jollekin opetus (Finnish), donner une leçon (French), eine Lektion erteilen (German), megleckéztet (Hungarian), dare una lezione (Italian), 目に物見せる (me ni monomiseru) (alt: めにものみせる) (Japanese), 思い知らせる (omoishiraseru) (alt: おもいしらせる) (Japanese), 혼내다 (honnaeda) (Korean), învăța minte (Romanian), проучи́ть (proučítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), показа́ть, где ра́ки зиму́ют (pokazátʹ, gde ráki zimújut) [perfective] (Russian), показа́ть ку́зькину мать (pokazátʹ kúzʹkinu matʹ) [perfective] (Russian), dar una lección (Spanish), lära en läxa (Swedish), läxa upp (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-teach_someone_a_lesson-en-verb-LC8P2pmd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "punish (informal)",
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      "sense": "punish (informal)",
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      "sense": "punish (informal)",
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      "word": "показа́ть ку́зькину мать"
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      "sense": "punish (informal)",
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      "sense": "punish (informal)",
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