fight fire with fire

English

Verb

fight fire with fire

1. (idiomatic) To respond to an attack with a similar or identical counter-attack (i.e. to respond to gunfire with reciprocal gunfire).

Translations

idiomatic

• Bulgarian: клин клин избива (bg) (klin klin izbíva) 
• French: combattre le feu par le feu (fr)
• Norwegian: bekjempe ild med ild (no)
• Russian: клин клином вышибают (klin klínom vyšibájut, they remove a wedge with a wedge)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кли̏н се кли̏ном ѝзбӣја̄ (sh)

  Roman: klȉn se klȉnom ìzbījā (sh)

• Turkish: ateşe ateşle karşılık vermek (tr)