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GIVE (SOMEONE) A TASTE OF (HIS/HER) OWN MEDICINE

to treat someone the same way they treat others (especially when they are strict, unfair, or unkind)
 GIVE (SOMEONE) A TASTE OF (HIS/HER) OWN MEDICINE
1. She has treated everyone very unfairly. I wish that someone would give her a taste of her own medicine
2. He always criticizes his colleagues for making careless mistakes. So after he accidentally started a fire in the office, they were really able to give him a taste of his own medicine

Similar to: fix (someone’s) wagon; tit for tat.


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