give someone a taste of their own medicine
• give someone the same bad treatment that they have given to others.
• "tired of his humiliation of me, I decided to give him a taste of his own medicine"
Similar:
get even (with),
get back at,
get,
let someone see how it feels,
be revenged (on),
revenge oneself (on),
hit back (at),
even the score (with),
settle a/the score,
settle accounts (with),
get one's own back (on),
give as good as one gets,
play tit for tat (with),
pay someone back,
repay,
reciprocate,
retaliate (against),
take reprisals (against),
exact retribution (on),
give someone their comeuppance,
