Idiom
settle a score
Meaning
To even the score.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He wants to settle a score with his old rival.”
“After years of being treated unfairly, she finally returned to the company to settle a score with her former boss.”
“The protagonist returned to his hometown not for nostalgia, but with a cold determination to settle a score that had haunted his family for generations.”
Examples
simple
“He wants to settle a score with his old rival.”
contextual
“After years of being treated unfairly, she finally returned to the company to settle a score with her former boss.”
complex
“The protagonist returned to his hometown not for nostalgia, but with a cold determination to settle a score that had haunted his family for generations.”
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