# China's final warning

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/chinas-final-warning
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

A warning that carries no real consequences; an empty threat.

## 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.

## Origin

Calque of Russian последнее китайское предупреждение (posledneje kitajskoje predupreždenije).

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