Usually means: Repayment of harm with harm.
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  1. eye for an eye: Merriam-Webster
  2. eye for an eye: Wiktionary
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▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.

Similar:
taste of one's own medicine, lex talionis, dose of one's own medicine, price on someone's head, vengeance, blood in one's eye, counterpunishment, magbote, maegbote, requital, more...

Opposite:
mercy, forgiveness, compassion, leniency

Phrases:
an eye for an eye, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, more...

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Similar:
taste of one's own medicine, lex talionis, dose of one's own medicine, price on someone's head, vengeance, blood in one's eye, counterpunishment, magbote, maegbote, requital, more...

Opposite:
mercy, forgiveness, compassion, leniency

Phrases:
an eye for an eye, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, more...



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