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that'll learn someone

that'll learn someone is the alternative form of that'll teach someone.

Meaning of that'll teach someone

Phrase

that'll teach someone

  1. Used after someone has done something bad and has got punished for it, to learn from their mistake
    • 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."1992, Hugh Walpole, Jeremy and the Ruffians

Questions about that'll learn someone

What is that'll learn someone the alternative form of?
That'll learn someone is the alternative form of that'll teach someone.

Words near that'll learn someone in the dictionary

  1. that'll
  2. that'll be the day
  3. that'll be the frosty Friday
  4. that'll do
  5. that'll do it to you
  6. that'll learn someone
  7. that'll teach someone
  8. that'll've
  9. that'n
  10. that're
  11. that's

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Adapted from Wiktionary: that'll learn someone (page history and authors); that'll teach someone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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