idiom > to punish an offender who hss not been told what is the right thing to do and what is not
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Do not teach without prior warning
  Explanation: Education: education; punish: punishment, to kill. Executed without warning. That does not educate people in advance, a mistake to be punished.
  Usage: Contraction type; as predicate, object, attribute; containing derogatory, used in written language
  Source: Qin Xun "Xunzi Fu country": "So do not teach without prior warning, the evil criminal complicated and numerous, to teach rather than punish, then punish Jianmin not."
  Examples: They call them the three months limit adults to quit, width of the period, moving to powerful, could not bear to ~. (Qing Li Baojia "Bureaucrats" Twenty-back)
Without prior education, they should be punished
  Without prior education, they should be punished. Language of the "Analects Yao said,": "do not teach the child to kill that." "Xunzi Fu country": "it is not without prior warning, the evil criminal complicated and numerous." "Loving," Volume: "No without prior warning, is also advised people did not know. "" A Short History of Civilization "Sixth Chapter:" Our government has now been identified, could not bear not without prior warning, ordered them to turn over within three months behind closed doors. "Mao Zedong" in China Eighth CPC Central Committee plenary session on the second speech ":" For other errors, but also to take this approach. advance a notice, due for rectification, not 'not without prior warning,' This is a small democracy Methods. "
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No. 3
  词 目 不教而诛
  发 音 bù jiào ér zhū
  释 义 教:施教,教育;诛:杀戮,处罚,杀死。不警告就处死。指事先不教育人,一犯错误就加以惩罚。
  出 处 《荀子·富国》:“故不教而诛,则刑繁而邪不胜;教而不诛,则奸民不惩。”
  示 例 大人限他们三个月叫他们戒烟,宽之以期限,动之以厉害,不忍~。(清·李宝嘉《官场现形记》第二十回)
成语词典
  成语名称 不教而诛 汉语拼音 bù jiào ér zhū 成语释义 教:教育;诛:处罚,杀死。不警告就处死。指事先不教育人,一犯错误就加以惩罚。 成语出处 《荀子·富国》:“故不教而诛,则刑繁而邪不胜;教而不诛,则奸民不惩。” 使用例句 大人限他们三个月叫他们戒烟,宽之以期限,动之以厉害,不忍不教而诛
  ★清·李宝嘉《官场现形记》第二十回
English Expression
  1. v.:   punish an offender who hss not been told what is the right thing to do and what is not
Thesaurus
Do not teach to kill, set up one's comb, aggro, a medding duchess, order people about by gesture, braggart, dazzle, swank
Antonym Group
Questions and answers, Have no choice but No _set_, servile, be obsequious, be a yes-man, The Cited coherent, grovel, be good at giving systematic guidance, Insider, bow unctuously, din exhortations into sb's ears, advise in earnest words and with good intention, earnestly encourage each other, be tireless in teaching, repeatedly admonish, earnestly and tirelessly edify, Face life mentioned ear