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learn you a lesson

VERY POOR Junky English. The author/s need the Grammar Bammer to Hammer Correct Grammar into them...

It should be Teach or Taught; and It was in My Day.
You call that winning at Gotham City Project?
Gimme that controller and I'll TEACH YOU A LESSON!

Learn you a lesson? That's shabby, poor and utterly bad english! Learn some, before I teach you some!

learn you a lesson

1.verb: to show someone (or thing) that they are wrong or that they do poorly in reference to a specific field through punishment or humiliation
"you think you're good at video games? give me that controller and i'll learn you a lesson!"

"the steelers learned the seahawks a lesson."
Word of the Day on March 25, 2006

learn you a lesson

i'm sorry, i don't usually pick faults with grammar as grammar rules can sometimes be too picky but i'm afraid the phrase is 'teach you a lesson' not 'learn you a lesson'. that's why a teacher teaches, and a pupil learn.

teach you a lesson is usually used as a threat indicating impending violence.
jimmy: yo mama is so ugly, she turns people's stomachs!

phil: you son of a bitch! i'm going to teach you a lesson!

(this phrase should be teach you a lesson and not learn you a lesson.)
learn you a lesson by lotty3k April 22, 2006

learn you a lesson

Also related to the absurd patriarchal plea for control. "You must learn lessons, this is why I'm teaching you." Infamously responsible for closing the spiritually liberating "third eye." The phrase, "learn you a lesson," seems to be an unconscious, funny way amongst friends to remind one another how much it sucks to be taught by force. It's amazing how the mind never lets us forget until we forgive.
"That'll learn you a lesson!"

let me learn you something 

A southern way, for one to tell another to observe what they are doing and try and retain some of the information to help improve their current situation or to later share with others.
A - Man that girl keeps starring at me.
B - Dude go talk to her!
A - I don't know what to say.
B - Here let me learn you something. Excuse me miss, nice shoes. Want to give me a bj?

That'll Learn You 

(That will learn you)

Making it clear to another person that you've made a mistake and that you should have known better.
Joe: I can't believe she cheated on me again.

Moe: That'll learn you.
That'll Learn You by CG-PTY April 1, 2009
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Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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Blue Movie 

A pornographic film.

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I found your stash of blue movies under your bed.
Blue Movie by Shayde79 January 20, 2011
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fache-couture 

French slang, which translated, means "bull's fashion" but basically equates to "hyper trendy" or overly trendy. Used when a person wishes to express distaste at the latest fashion trend/fad, because it seems that everyone has a certain item of clothing or is wearing it. This term is most frequently heard in Paris but is slowly spreading to other parts of France.
1. That Burberry scarf is so fache-couture.
2. That purple American Apparel hoodie is so fache-couture.
fache-couture by bkgmh46x0x March 18, 2008
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