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单词 to get even with
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to get even with
a. to get even with: to contrive to be even or quits with; esp. to inflict trouble or harm on a person which is similar to that which he or she has inflicted on oneself; to take one's revenge upon or retaliate against a person or thing. Cf. to be even with at Phrases 6.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > take vengeance on > be revenged upon
to be even witha1500
to have one's pennyworths out ofa1566
to be meet (also meets) with1584
to be with1597
to get even with1846
a1712 T. Halyburton Great Concern Salvation (1721) i. 99 Were not you vexed, thinking how to get even with them?
1784 J. Malchair Let. 6 July in C. Harrison John Malchair of Oxf. (1998) 17/2 Something must be done to gett even with the world, for..I find myself getting behind hand, for nobody pays now.
1818 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 14 May Let us..pay off our national debt, get even with the world, and be new in our practice as we are in theory.
1846 Madison (Wisconsin Territory) Express 20 Oct. [He] took advantage of a slight lull in the discussion to get even with his colleague from Dane, by treating his constituents in the gallery with a lengthened and elaborate discourse, showing how [etc.].
1877 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 5 Nov. His looks told that he had got even with Ferry at last. The tables are turned. Ferry owes him ‘one’.
1910 Granta 11 June 9 I feel that I can never get quite even with him again.
1997 T. Petsinis French Mathematician (1998) xlii. 392 I am determined to get even with those who thwarted me.
2012 J. Robinson Trump Tower xxv. 157 He dumped me bad..and I got even with him by posting a few inappropriate photos of him on the Net.
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