teach sb a lesson
C2 A person or experience that teaches you a lesson improves your future behaviour by making you experience the bad effects of your actions:
Having my car stolen really taught me a lesson - I'll never leave it unlocked again.
She decided to teach the boy a lesson.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Teaching in general
- brief
- CAL
- CLIL
- clue
- clue sb in
- didactic
- drum
- homeschool
- hothousing
- instruction
- instructional
- popularize
- special educational needs
- teach
- that'll teach sb idiom
- tutelage
- upskill
- upskilling
- wean
- wean sb on sth
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