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以牙还牙
yǐ​yá​huán​yá

tit for tat

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
以牙还牙 以牙還牙 yǐ​yá​huán​yá
tit for tat
to fight back using the same methods that were used against you; to give tit for tat; to retaliate in kind

Frequency

Movie subtitles
2.89 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
0.477 per million

Cross-References

Referenced by

  • 以眼还眼 yǐ​yǎn​huán​yǎn

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)