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請君入甕
简 请君入瓮 · 繁 請君入甕Mandarin · pinyin qǐng jūn rù wèng
Meanings
- lit. please Sir, get into the boiling pot (idiom)
- fig. to give sb a taste of his own medicine
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3–1–4–4 · qing3 jun1 ru4 weng4
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- (idiomatic) to pay back in someone's own coin; to give someone a taste of his/her own medicine; to make someone's act backfire on him or her; to treat someone in his or her own ways
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