2012, Caspar Henderson,The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page107:
Vertebrates are limited to two eyes each, but the variations they have played on this plain vanilla starting point are anobject lesson in how much can be made from a little.
Anything used as anexample orlesson which serves towarn others as to the outcomes that result from a particular action or behavior, as exemplified by thefates of those who followed that course.
Let that be anobject lesson to him.
2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, inRAIL, number945, page 8:
Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been anobject lesson in how not to make a government announcement."
2022 March 17, Paul Krugman, “Another Dictator Is Having a Bad Year”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
Yet China, like Russia, is now giving us anobject lesson in the usefulness of having an open society, where strongmen don’t get to invent their own reality.
2022 October 25, Derek Thompson, “How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe”, inThe Atlantic[2]:
The U.K. is now anobject lesson for other countries dealing with a dark triad of deindustrialization, degrowth, and denigration of foreigners.
2023 June 30,Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, inThe Guardian[3]:
Thames Water has become the latestobject lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.
