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an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth

idiom

compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting of an identical injury on that person.


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  1. 01

    apple of someone's eye

    The object of somebody's affections; a person (or sometimes a thing) that someone strongly prefers; a favorite, a loved one.

  2. 02

    blink of an eye

    A moment (a very short period of time).

  3. 03

    camel through the eye of a needle

    Hyperbole to illustrate something that is impossible to do or to make happen.

  4. 04

    catch someone's eye

    To capture someone's attention.

  5. 05

    catch the eye

    To attract the attention

  6. 06

    clean as a hound's tooth

    Very clean.

  7. 07

    close one eye

    to look the other way, to deliberately ignore or overlook (a mistake or transgression).

  8. 08

    dry eye

    An eye which is not crying, i.e. someone emotionally unmoved.

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