pay back (2)
This page is about the phrasal verb pay back (2)
Meaning
If you pay someone back for doing something bad to you, you do something bad to them in return.
Synonym
get back at
For example
- pay sb back Jim was angry after I fired him and he said he'd pay me back one day.
- pay sb back for sth The kid who shot fifteen students in his high school said he was paying them back for all their insults and put-downs.
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