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that'll teach someone

that'll teach someone phrase: used after someone has done something bad and has got punished for it, to learn from their mistake.

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 teach someone

What does that'll teach someone mean?
That'll teach someone means used after someone has done something bad and has got punished for it, to learn from their mistake.
What part of speech is that'll teach someone?
That'll teach someone is a phrase.

Words near that'll teach someone in the dictionary

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

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