don't get mad, get even
something that you say in order to tell someone not to be angry when another person has upset them, but instead to do something that will upset that person very much:
This is my advice to wives whose husbands have left them for a younger woman - don't get mad, get even!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Revenge and vengefulness
- an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) idiom
- avenge
- bite
- bite back (at sb/sth)
- even
- get even with sb idiom
- hit
- mind
- own
- pay
- payback
- reprisal
- retaliate
- retaliatory
- revenge
- revenge is sweet idiom
- two can play at that game idiom
- vengeance
- vengeful
- vindictive
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