tooth for a tooth
Example Sentences
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“We don’t believe in an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, because that always leads to a bad situation,” Sheinbaum told journalists at her daily news conference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2025
"Eye for an eye tooth for a tooth and the world is blind and toothless."
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2016
In the trial the defense lawyers said that the Mosaic law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth had gone out of effect nearly 2,000 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Observers wondered whether Il Duce, justly wroth, would exact "a tooth for a tooth."
From Time Magazine Archive
“The law of Leviticus states ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life.’
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
