pay back in someone's own coin

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pay back in someone's own coin (third-person singular simple present pays back in someone's own coin, present participle paying back in someone's own coin, simple past and past participle paid back in someone's own coin)

  1. (figuratively) To give tit for tat.
    Synonym: pay back in kind

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