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Give Taste Medicine Treat In The Loop 286 His/Her Strict Unfair

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Idiom GIVE (SOMEONE) A TASTE OF (HIS/HER) OWN MEDICINE
Definition to treat someone the same way they treat others (especially when they are strict, unfair, or unkind)
Examples
  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.
Cross-Refs

Similar to: fix (someone’s) wagon; tit for tat
Category Emotions/Feelings: anger/being upset

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