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as a lesson to everybody else (If somebody got brave enough to stand up to them, the owlhoots would slap him down ruthlessly, sometimes even killing him, as a lesson to everybody else – by T. Evans Tamerlane); as a lesson to everyone else (Did you want a building bombed? Did you want someone beaten up? Did you want a reporter blown to bits as a lesson to everyone else? – by T. Fitzpatrick Tamerlane); so that it doesn't become a habit (Anglophile); in order to teach not to do so (Anglophile); so as to serve as a lesson or deterrent to others |
