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Complete Definition of "fight fire with fire"

English

Verb
fight fire with fire

  1. idiom|fire To respond to an attack with a similar or identical method.

Translations
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French: t-|fr|combattre le feu par le feu
Norwegian: t-|no|bekjempe ild med ild
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Russian: клин клином вышибают (klin klínom vyšibájut, they remove a wedge with a wedge)
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