A stitch in time of crisis

Posted on December 19, 2019 by Confanity

一罰百戒
ichi.batsu.hya-.kkai

Literally: one – punishment – hundred – warnings

Alternately: Making an example of someone. Meting out a punishment not just so one wrongdoer faces consequences, but also so that anyone else considering the same crime is forced to reconsider.

Notes: This phrase is not meant to imply an actual hundred-to-one ratio; 百 is simply standing in for “a large number.”

IchiBatsuHyaKkai

But is it a finishing move? We’ll have to see.

About Confanity

I love the written word more than anything else I've had the chance to work with. I'm back in the States from Japan for grad school, but still studying Japanese with the hope of becoming a translator -- or writer, or even teacher -- as long as it's something language-related.
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