repay in kind

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누구나 보복은
누구나 보복은
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보복을 사도한다.
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It means to pay someone back in the same way that he paid you originally.

 Literally it means that if someone lent you a hundred pounds in ten-pound notes, you should return the money in ten-pound notes.

 Figuratively - the more common meaning - it means that if he's killed your brother, you should go and kill his.

 The normal meaning of payment in kind is to pay someone in some way other than money, but I'd say that the phrase also easily carries the tit-for-tat meaning I've just tried to explain.
 


Thomas Tompion, Mar 5, 2015 

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