that'll teach someone

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Phrase

that'll teach someone

  1. Used after someone has done something bad and has got punished for it, to learn from their mistake
    • 1992, Hugh Walpole, Jeremy and the Ruffians:
      A big red-faced man next to Jeremy was crying over and over again: "That'll teach him to meddle with our women." "That'll teach him to meddle with our women."

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