Monday, July 7, 2014

Lesson 224--Give Someone a Dose of Their Own Medecine



What happens when the ticket writer parks in the wrong place.
 

This is a good revenge idiom.  It is also used on television shows a lot.  Whenever people want to get revenge, or get back at someone, they will often use this phrase.  The idea is to treat someone the same way that they treat you.  This includes girlfriends whose boyfriends flirt with other girls.  The girl will then flirt with another boy to make him jealous.  This also includes towing the car that writes parking tickets.

examples

When Maria's boyfriend was flirting with another girl, she flirted with an older man to give her boyfriend a dose of his own medicine.

When everyone discovered that David was eating their food at the apartment, they decided to give him a dose of his own medicine.  So they ate all his food.

Mario's roommate kept taking his bicycle without asking, so he decided to give him a dose of his own medicine.  He took his car for a long ride downtown.

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