VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

An Eye for an Eye

Meaning:

Justice in which reparation or vengeance exactly matches the harm caused to (the victim

Examples:

  • And yet, there are also scriptures that teach you to 'Slay With the Sword'. However, 'An Eye for an Eye' is most certainly not the path towards Peace.
  • An eye for an eye is still a way of life.
  • Are we living in the Dark Ages, an eye for an eye?
  • An eye for an eye, or turn the other cheek?
  • Just that this was more "an eye for an eye."
  • Pride against pride, an eye for an eye, enough of this.
  • An eye for an eye is a philosophy millennia out of date.
  • There is a value in an eye for an eye, you know...
  • And what the colonel's planned here it's an eye for an eye.
  • And your rules are an eye for an eye.