pay back in someone's own coin

English

Verb

pay back in someone's own coin (third-person singular simple present pays back in someone's own coin, present participle paying back in someone's own coin, simple past and past participle paid back in someone's own coin)

1. (figuratively) To give tit for tat.

   Synonym: pay back in kind

Translations

give tit for tat

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 針鋒相對 / 针锋相对 (zh) (zhēnfēngxiāngduì)

• Esperanto: repagi per la sama monero
• Finnish: maksaa samalla mitalla
• French: rendre la monnaie de sa pièce (fr)

References

• “pay a person back in the same coin”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “pay someone back in their own coin”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.