idiom > kill the chicken to frighten the monkey
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Warning shot
　　Explanation: Chickens to monkeys to see. Analogy to intimidate or punish a person alert others.
　　Usage: The main predicate; as the predicate attribute, object; containing derogatory
　　Source: Qing Li Baojia "Bureaucrats" 53 back: "As the saying goes, is called the 'warning shot', take chicken slaughter, and that natural fear of monkeys."
　　Examples: As the saying goes good, called ~ ", take chicken slaughter, and that monkeys naturally afraid. (Qing Li Baojia" Bureaucrats "fifty-third back)
Analogy to intimidate or punish a person alert others
　　Analogy to intimidate or punish a person alert others. "Exposure," the fifth three times: "the saying goes, is called the 'kill a chicken to scare the monkey', take chicken slaughter, and that monkeys are afraid of." Also as "Shajixiahou." "Yuan Kingdoms," the second time: "Guangxu conservative minister for the court to resist his order, blocking the New Deal, is in a fit of anger, they take 'Shajixiahou' means, Wen Ti's edicts have come to Abolish the post of censor."
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No. 3
　　Legend monkeys are afraid to see blood, tame monkeys who would kill a chicken blood to threaten monkeys. Analogy to intimidate or punish a person alert others.
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杀鸡骇猴
　　拼音：shā jī hài hóu
　　〖释义〗传说猴子怕见血，驯猴的人便杀鸡放血来恐吓猴子。比喻用惩罚一个人的办法来警告别的人。
　　〖出处〗清·李宝嘉《官场现形记》第五十三回：“俗语说的好，叫做‘杀鸡骇猴’，拿鸡子宰了，那猴儿自然害怕。”
　　〖示例〗俗语说的好，叫做“～”，拿鸡子宰了，那猴儿自然害怕。（清·李宝嘉《官场现形记》第五十三回）
　　〖故事〗从前一个耍猴人买了一只不听话的猴子，艺人十分生气，就到市场买来一只公鸡，对它不断敲锣打鼓，公鸡吓呆了，艺人乘机拿刀杀了公鸡，坐在一旁的猴子也吓坏了，从此只要艺人说什么或敲锣打鼓，猴子就会毫不含糊地执行艺人的指令
　　同“杀鸡儆猴”
　　杀鸡儆猴
　　绳之以法，犯军令韩信斩殷盖。杀鸡儆猴，振军心枪毙韩复榘。
　　相传猴子是最怕见血的，驯猴的人首先当面把鸡杀给它看，叫它看看血的厉害。才可以逐步进行教化。捉猴子的人就采用这杀鸡战术，不管它怎样顽强抗拒，只要雄鸡一声惨叫，鲜血一冒，猴子一见，便全身软化，任由捉获了。
　　所谓“杀鸡儆猴”，即是“杀一儆百”，有威胁恫吓之意，这是权术，是驭众手段。在意见纷纭、工作受到许多阻挠的时候，为使步骤划一，法令贯彻执行，非以严厉手段对付不可，此之所谓“不以霹雳手段，怎显菩萨心肠”的解释。
　　“治乱世。用重典；治乱军，用严刑。”孔子诛少正卯，虽然不合情理，但权术奸诈，却因这一刀而使得权臣畏惧，市井安然；孔明于挥泪斩马谡之时说：“昔孙武所以能制胜天下者，用法明也，今四方纷争，兵交方始。若废法何以讨贼，不明正军律何以服众？”这就是平乱与治乱的权术，是杀鸡儆猴的妙用。
　　人是神秘的，社会愈复杂，愈见机巧奸诈，各有主张，各行其是，如不限制于一个范围，必至正邪莫辨，人欲横流。所以乱世英雄多，盛世英雄少，就在于范围限得紧不紧。古时的所谓“英雄”越多，对国家对社会越不利，常言道“孝子不生慈父之家，忠臣不生圣君之下”，“英雄”者，等于枯木中的蛀虫也。这等人贪婪暴戾，好乱成性，或谣言倡乱，或患连造反，总之惟恐天下不乱，乱就民不聊生，民不聊生就可以实现他的企图，象补锅的师傅一样，先把锅子裂缝敲宽了再来施补手术，越敲得宽越显出技术超群。试看中国历史，哪一个朝代不是把锅子敲破了再来补？ 为了要巩固社会秩序，安定人民生活，对于这批作乱的人，应予严惩痛处，借几个人头教他们瞧瞧。这就是“不见棺材不落泪，见了棺材泪涟涟”的攻心战术。“杀鸡儆猴”的意义就在此。
　　姜太公灭了商纣，周朝立基之后，要罗致一批人才为国家效力。
　　在齐国有一位贤人狂橘，很为地方上人士推重。姜太公慕名，想请他出来做事，拜访了三次，都吃闭门羹。
　　姜太公忽然把他杀了，周公但想救也来不及，问姜太公：“狂橘是一位贤人，不求富贵显达，自己拙井而饮，耕田而食，正所谓隐者无累于世，为什么把他杀了？”
　　姜太公说：“四海之内，莫非王土，率土之滨，莫非王臣。在天下大定之时，人人应为国家出力。只有两个立场，不是拥护就是反对，绝不容有犹豫或中立思想存在，以狂橘这种不合作态度，如果人人学他样，那还有什么可用之民。可纳之饷呢？所以把他杀了，目的在于儆效尤！”
　　果然经此一杀，想杯葛周朝的人都不敢自命清高，隐居下去了。
English Expression
  1. n.:  kill the chicken to frighten the monkey,  punish sb. as a warning to others
Thesaurus
execute one as a warning to a hundred, Shajixiahou, Warning to others, serve to warn others against following a bad example, punish one as a warning to others, With a warning to a hundred
Antonym
lenity, give quarter, Extrajudicial Ren, Fawai favor, Let bygones be bygones, past not censure