A TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE

If someone is given a taste (or dose) of their own medicine, they receive the same poor treatment that they gave to others. This idiom dates back to the mid 19th century. [1]

 Examples of use:

 “The villains are the Twit couple who come to a sticky end after receiving a taste of their own medicine.”

 “The moment a bailiff gets ‘a taste of her own medicine’ when her own car is clamped by a disabled man has been captured.”

 “United lacked an enforcer of their own to give Barnes a dose of his own medicine.”

 [1] “medicine” In Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms, edited by Ayto, John. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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