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object lesson

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object lesson
n.
1. A concrete illustration of a moral or principle.
2. A lesson taught by using a material object.

object lesson
Noun
a practical demonstration of some principle or ideal
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Noun1.object lesson - punishment intended as a warning to others; "they decided to make an example of him"
admonition, word of advice, monition, warning - cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches"
Translations

object lesson n (fig) → (buen) ejemplo
object lesson n (fig) → (bonne) illustration
object lesson object n an object lesson in → ein Paradebeispiel nt für
object lesson n object lesson (in) → dimostrazione f (di)

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It will break your heart--it will break his; but for you it will be an excellent object lesson.
All this is used up; it is no longer instructive as an object lesson in revolutionary anarchism.
It would have been a splendid object lesson, she thought, to all those idealists who seek mass perfection in any phase of human endeavor, since here they might discover the truth that absolute perfection is as little to be desired as is its antithesis.
 
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