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a taste of your own medicine
USUK
the same bad treatment that you have given to other people
Common with 'give someone' or 'get'. 'Your' changes: 'a taste of his own medicine'.
In context
He's always late for our meetings, so today I made him wait and gave him a taste of his own medicine.
The bully finally got a taste of his own medicine when the older kids teased him.
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