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come down on (like a ton of bricks)
vs
make an example of
come down on (like a ton of bricks)
make an example of
verb
To punish someone so as to give a warning to others.
How often have the words
come down on (like a ton of bricks)
and
make an example of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)