Idiom
China's final warning
Meaning
A warning that carries no real consequences; an empty threat.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“His threats are just China's final warning.”
“The manager keeps threatening to fire us for being late, but it is just China's final warning.”
“Despite the stern rhetoric from the board of directors, the staff dismissed the memo as nothing more than China's final warning.”
Examples
simple
“His threats are just China's final warning.”
contextual
“The manager keeps threatening to fire us for being late, but it is just China's final warning.”
complex
“Despite the stern rhetoric from the board of directors, the staff dismissed the memo as nothing more than China's final warning.”
Origin
Calque of Russian последнее китайское предупреждение (posledneje kitajskoje predupreždenije).
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