get own back

get your own back

to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done something unpleasant to you Fiona had deliberately stopped me getting that job and I was determined to get my own back. (often + on ) She got her own back on her unfaithful husband by throwing a pot of red paint over his brand new car.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Roland	RO-lənd (English), ro-LAWN (French), RO-lawnd (Hungarian)	English, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Hungarian, Medieval French
Vaso	-	Greek, Georgian, Serbian
Valpuri	VAHL-puu-ree	Finnish
Eugen	OI-gen (German)	German, Romanian, Czech, Slovak, Croatian
Kader (1)	-	Arabic
Hugubert	-	Ancient Germanic