以牙还牙 yǐyáhuányá retaliation Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 以牙还牙 (以牙還牙) yǐyáhuányá retaliation idiom A tooth for a tooth; retaliation in kind. 面对对方的无理挑衅，他决定以牙还牙。 miànduì duìfāng de wúlǐ tiǎoxìn, tā juédìng yǐyáhuányá. Faced with the opponent's unreasonable provocation, he decided to give them a taste of their own medicine. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.89 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.477 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
以牙还牙 (以牙還牙) yǐyáhuányá retaliation idiom A tooth for a tooth; retaliation in kind. 面对对方的无理挑衅，他决定以牙还牙。 miànduì duìfāng de wúlǐ tiǎoxìn, tā juédìng yǐyáhuányá. Faced with the opponent's unreasonable provocation, he decided to give them a taste of their own medicine. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.89 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.477 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
