殺一儆百

lit. kill one to warn a hundred (idiom); to punish an individual as an example to others / pour encourager les autres

to kill / to murder / to attack / to weaken or reduce / to smart (dialect) / (used after a verb) extremely

one / single / a (article) / as soon as / entire; whole; all; throughout / "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1) / also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit

to warn / to admonish

hundred / numerous / all kinds of