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以其人之道,还治其人之身

yǐqírénzhīdào,huánzhìqírénzhīshēn

Traditional: 以其人之道,還治其人之身

to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi [[朱熹]]); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game / to give sb a taste of his own medicine

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