Meaning of taste of one's own medicine | Babel Free
Definitions
Harsh treatment inflicted on one who previously inflicted similar or equivalent treatment on others.
idiomatic
Equivalents
Čeština
spadnout do vlastní jámy
Italiano
pan per focaccia
Nederlands
koekje van eigen deeg
Svenska
få smaka på sin egen medicin
Examples
“"The man's spirit is evil enough to frighten people away and we will drop stones upon him, so that he can learn the taste of his own medicine."”
“The Long Tom in the stern of the schooner opened fire . . . and two men were seen to go down. The captain laughed. "That's a taste of their own medicine," he said.”
“Some stars reportedly even want to investigate the private lives of tabloid editors, to give them a taste of their own medicine.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.