to return the favor [with à ‘to someone’] (in a favorable sense) · to pay back in kind, to pay back in someone's own coin, to get one's own back on [with à ‘someone’] (in an unfavorable sense)
eş: échange de bons procédés, payer en même monnaie, renvoyer l’ascenseur, réciproquer
to get revenge on someone, to take vengeance on someone
çekim: geçmiş launaði lambið gráa
köken: From the saga of Heiðarvíga. In the year 1000, a man named Styr had just killed the farmer Þórhalli from Jörfi who had two children; Áslaug and Gestur. His son Gestur was a weak and backward child, who was not likely to avenge his father's death. Still Styr decided to recompense Gestur for the patricide with a grey heimalningur (“home-fed lamb”). Later however (in the year 1007-1008) Gestur…
bclbalos
cmn復仇 /复仇
grcἀποτίνω
Etimoloji
From heim- (“home”) + zahlen (“pay”). Compare English pay home.