an eye for an eye
Example Sentences
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She offers a better resolution than an eye for an eye, in the form a honey-flavored absolution, baked with love.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2024
Jade wants to be both the ugly zombie daddy, meting out an eye for an eye, and the final girl who brings him down.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021
A common misperception is that proportionality in self-defence means an eye for an eye, a rocket for a rocket, or a casualty for a casualty.
From BBC • May 15, 2021
To suggest, in the name of a child’s innocent gaze, that putting food on the table beats an eye for an eye, for then soon enough everyone is blind.
From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2020
It was a superstitious fear that held his frightfulness in check—a presentiment based upon the Mosaic Law, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.
