own medicine Idiome
dose/taste of one's own medicine
give him a taste of his own medicine
own medicine
get a taste of one's own medicine
Idiom(s): get a taste of one's own medicineTheme: RECIPROCITY
[for one] to receive difficulties of the same kind that one has been causing other people.
• Now you see how it feels to have someone call you names! You are getting a taste of your own medicine!
• John, who is often rude and abrupt with people, was devastated when the teacher treated him rudely. He doesn't like having a taste of his own medicine.
dose of one's own medicine
Idiom(s): dose of one's own medicineTheme: RECIPROCITY
the same kind of treatment that one gives to other people. (Often with get or have.)
• Sally never is very friendly. Someone is going to give her a dose of her own medicine someday.
• He didn't like getting a dose of his own medicine.
Taste of your own medicine
If you give someone a taste of their own medicine, you do something bad to someone that they have done to you to teach them a lesson.A Taste Of Your Own Medicine
When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.dose of one's own medicine|dose|medicine|taste|tas
n. phr. Being treated in the same way you treat others; something bad done to you as you have done bad to other people. Jim was always playing tricks on other boys. Finally they decided to give him a dose of his own medicine.give one some of his own medicine|give|give one so
v. phr. To treat someone the way he or she treats others (used in the negative). The gangster beat up an innocent old man, so when he resisted arrest, a policeman gave him a little of his own medicine.a dosage of (one's) own medicine
An acquaintance of the aforementioned adverse or abhorrent affair that one has inflicted on others or an advance in the aforementioned address in which one attacks others. John has accounted about anybody in our group, so we gave him a dosage of his own anesthetic by overextension rumors about him. The accomplishment gave the absolutism a dosage of its own medicine, subjecting the absolutist and his associates to ache and bonds in afflictive conditions.Learn more: dose, medicine, of, owndose of one's own medicine
Also, taste of one's own medicine. Repayment or retaliation, as in It's time we gave them a dosage of their own anesthetic and artlessly balloon to alarm them aback , or Joe was agitated at actuality larboard out, but they were aloof giving him a aftertaste of his own anesthetic . [Late 1800s] Learn more: dose, medicine, of, ownown medicine, a dose/taste of one's
Repayment in kind; tit for tat. Although the abstraction is hardly new, the alleviative allegory dates alone from the backward nineteenth century. V. Perdue acclimated it in The Singing Clock (1941): “It was alone fair for them to get a aftertaste of their own medicine.”Learn more: dose, of, own, taste
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