English
Pronunciation
Noun
taste of one's own medicine
- (idiomatic, usually preceded by a) Harsh treatment inflicted on one who previously inflicted similar or equivalent treatment on others.
- Synonym: taste of one's own poison
1916, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 27, in Rainbow's End:"The man's spirit is evil enough to frighten people away and we will drop stones upon him, so that he can learn the taste of his own medicine."
1919, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 5, in The Sun Of Quebec:The Long Tom in the stern of the schooner opened fire . . . and two men were seen to go down. The captain laughed. "That's a taste of their own medicine," he said.
2001 June 24, Richard Zoglin, “Hey, Wanna Buy Some Pix?”, in Time:Some stars reportedly even want to investigate the private lives of tabloid editors, to give them a taste of their own medicine.
Translations
harsh treatment
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: no equivalent term in Mandarin, but see 以其人之道，還治其人之身 / 以其人之道，还治其人之身 (zh) (yǐ qí rén zhī dào, huán zhì qí rén zhī shēn)
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: koekje van eigen deeg n
- Finnish: no equivalent term in Finnish, but see maistaa omaa lääkettään
- French: no equivalent term in French, but see rendre la pareille (fr), rendre la monnaie de sa pièce (fr), récolter ce que l'on a semé (fr)
- German: no equivalent term in German, but see mit gleicher Münze, am eigenen Leib spüren, am eigenen Leib erfahren
- Hungarian: no equivalent term in Hungarian, but see egye meg, amit főzött
- Icelandic: no equivalent term in Icelandic, but see í sömu mynt
- Irish: tomhas a láimhe féin
- Italian: pan per focaccia
- Spanish: dosis de su propia medicina f, cucharada de su propia medicina f, dar el medio vuelto (verb)
- Swedish: få smaka på sin egen medicin (literally “get to taste one's own medicine”)
- Ukrainian: відчути на власній шкурі (vidčuty na vlasnij škuri)
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