pay back in someone's own coin
pay back in someone's own coin · pays back in someone's own coin · paid back in someone's own coin · paying back in someone's own coin
To give tit for tatTo give tit for tat.
» We can only afford to pay you in chocolate coins.
Eccles17 · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(figuratively)To give tit for tat.
Examples
7 sentencesWe can only afford to pay you in chocolate coins.
The bill was paid in coin.
ruСчёт был оплачен монетами. — Biga
Traitors are paid with some silver coins.
I paid him back in his own coin.
ruЯ отплатил ему его же монетой. — marafon
I paid in coin.
ruЯ заплатил монетами. — AntonKhorev
deIch bezahlte mit Münzen. — Espi
Translations
1 languagesForms
pays back in someone's own coin, paying back in someone's own coin, paid back in someone's own coin, paid back in someone's own coin| Base form | pay back in someone's own coin · to pay back in someone's own coin |
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| 3rd person singular | pays back in someone's own coin |
| Present participle | paying back in someone's own coin |
| Past simple | paid back in someone's own coin |
| Past participle | paid back in someone's own coin |
irregular · Lesson
Present simpleLesson
| I, you, we, they | pay back in someone's own coin |
| he, she, it | pays back in someone's own coin |
Past simpleLesson
| all persons | paid back in someone's own coin |
Present perfectLesson
| I, you, we, they | have paid back in someone's own coin |
| he, she, it | has paid back in someone's own coin |
Future simple (will)Lesson
| all persons | will pay back in someone's own coin |
Synonyms
1 synonymspay back in kind
Lessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.