figurative. Also in phrase to be threshed with your own flail: to be treated as you have treated others.
单词 | θ93744 |
释义 | the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > make a return [verb (intransitive)] > come back on one (of one's own action) (3) to be threshed with your own flail1490 figurative. Also in phrase to be threshed with your own flail: to be treated as you have treated others. hoist with his own petard1604 hoist with his own petard (Shakespeare): Blown into the air by his own bomb; hence, injured or destroyed by his own device for the ruin of others. to come home to roost1810 to come home to roost: (of an action, etc.) to recoil unfavourably upon the originator. |
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