teach somebody a lesson

I just might, if for no other reason than to teach you a lesson.

And if something went wrong, God was trying to teach us a lesson.

So I played dead to teach him a good lesson.

Well, she was here tonight to teach him a lesson.

You've come here to show me up, to teach your daughter a lesson.

Said he was going to teach me a lesson not to go after him.

I really did not want to teach anyone a lesson.

But even in such times, the market can teach lessons.

If so, it was time to teach them a lesson.

It made her want to teach the woman a lesson.